Officer stops bank heist
An off-duty Prince George’s police officer was shot and wounded after interrupting a bank robbery in Bowie. The officer arrested one robber, but a second suspect fled in a green four-door sedan, Cpl. Clinton Copeland said. The incident happened shortly after 10 a.m. Monday at the BB&T bank at Old Chapel Road and Laurel Bowie Road. The officer and a robber struggled with the officer’s gun, and the weapon fired, grazing the officer in the leg and striking the suspect in the hand.
Boy, 3, found in bottom of pool
A 3-year-old boy is in critical condition after he wandered away from his older brother and was found in the bottom of a nearby pool in Burtonsville, Montgomery County police said. Lifeguards found the child around 10:30 a.m. Sunday, shortly before they were to open the pool. Police are investigating how he got into the water.
