P.G. officer fatally shoots man
Prince George’s County police are investigating an incident in which an officer shot and killed a man.
An officer was investigating a report of suspicious people in the 8100 block of Sheriff Road, near FedEx Field, at about 7 p.m. Monday when the people fled and the officer chased them, authorities said.
A confrontation resulted, and the officer used a Taser on the suspect, identified as 26-year-old Michael Bailey Jr. He was able to remove the Taser’s prongs, and he pulled out a handgun, police said. The officer then shot and killed Bailey.
The officer has been placed on administrative leave, which is standard procedure.
Swiss govt. responds to suit over fatal crash
Lawyers for the Swiss government responded to a wrongful-death lawsuit concerning a fatal crash near the National Zoo.
In December, Harvey Rishikof sued the Swiss government and Swiss Embassy employee Kamal Mortada after Mortada’s SUV fatally struck Rishikof’s wife in October. The Swiss government’s lawyers denied much of Rishikof’s lawsuit in its response, including a claim that the defendants engaged in several types of “unlawful, negligent, grossly negligent and/or reckless conduct” such as failure to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk and failure to keep a proper lookout.
Mortada previously made headlines when was one of two servants who told Geneva police in 2008 that he was beaten by a son of the late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
3rd man charged in D.C. slaying
Police have arrested a third person in connection with an August homicide in Northwest Washington.
Malachi Hansan Hargrove, 18, of Northeast, was charged with first-degree murder in the Aug. 17 death of 19-year-old Osman Al-Akbar, D.C. police said.
Al-Akbar was found slain on the 2600 block of University Place NW. Rashid Caviness-Bey, 19, and a 15-year-old boy were arrested shortly after the killing.
