Sean Suiter, 43, was fatally shot in the head on Nov. 15 and authorities said there was evidence of a struggle, The Baltimore Sun reported on Wednesday.
Detective Jemell Rayam, a 12-year veteran of the Baltimore Police Department was one of eight city police officers charged with racketeering in March by the U.S. attorney’s office.
Rayam and two other officers were accused in June 2009 of stealing $11,000 in cash from a man they pulled over in a traffic stop.
The man, Gary Brown filed a complaint with the police. Police launched an internal affairs investigation.
Rayam failed a 2010 polygraph test, and investigators concluded that he had provided false statements. The investigation resulted in a “finding of Sustained for the allegations of Misconduct General, Misrepresentation of Facts, and False Statements,” the documents show.
But an internal trial board acquitted him of those findings in 2012, and the state’s attorney’s office declined to prosecute him criminally.

Police tape off the scene where officer Suiter was fatally shot on Nov 14 in Baltimore city

Last month, Rayam became the third Baltimore officer to plead guilty to federal racketeering charges,de facto admitting to robbing suspects and forging reports to cover his tracks.
Rayam also he admitted to helping a Baltimore drug dealer rob a rival. Rayam and his fellow robbers made off with $12,000, a Rolex watch, a gold necklace, a handgun and 800 grams of heroin.

At the epicenter of the drug charges, officer Jemell Rayam  has pled guilty to the racketeering charges

They were accused of robbing suspects, filing false paperwork and committing overtime fraud. Seven members were indicted by a federal grand jury in March; an eighth was indicted in August.
Sgts. Thomas Allers and Wayne Jenkins and Dets. Momodu Gondo, Daniel Hersl, Evodio Hendrix, Jemell Rayam, Marcus Taylor and Maurice Ward have been charged. Hendrix and Ward have pleaded guilty. The rest have pleaded not guilty. Gondo and Rayam are scheduled to be re-arraigned later this year.
Trials for the men is scheduled to begin in January.

Snell allegedly  set up an October 2016 meeting between his brother and Rayam to arrange for the sale of cocaine seized by the task force.
After that drug sale the officers got allegedly deposited $1,000 apiece. Several similar transactions followed over the next two months, the indictment alleges.
Arrested along with six other officers in March, Rayam pled guilty to one count of racketeering conspiracy last month.
But in recorded jailhouse phone conversations , Snell allegedly pressured Rayam to keep his name out of the ongoing investigation: “Snell told Rayam to ‘stand tall’ and said he would ‘keep an eye’ on Rayam’s kids, which Rayam perceived as a threat to harm Rayam’s children if Rayam told authorities about Snell’s illegal drug trafficking,” the indictment states.
Snell reportedly, would be suspended for 30 days with intent to dismiss, by Philadelphia police dept.
In Maryland, Commissioner Kevin Davis of the Baltimore Police Department said authorities have no reason to believe Suiter’s killing was connected to his pending testimony, according to The Baltimore Sun.
“The BPD and FBI do not possess any information that this incident … is part of any conspiracy,” Davis said.
Commissioner Davis said authorities are offering a $215,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in Suitor’s killing, the Sun reported.