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Maryland teen, Dawnta Anthony Harris, charged as adult with first-degree murder in death of police officer

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><div class&equals;"card-content align-left">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>16-year-old boy arrested&comma; charged as adult with first-degree murder in death of Maryland police officer Amy Caprio&comma; Tuesday <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>Dawnta Anthony Harris is being charged as an adult in the death of officer Caprio <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>29-year-old Amy Caprio is married and a four-year-veteran of the Baltimore police dept<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>Caprio was run over after responding to a &&num;8220&semi;suspicious vehicle&&num;8221&semi; in a Baltimore suburb at approximately 2 p&period;m&period; on Monday&comma; May 21 &&num;8211&semi; she was rushed to a nearby hospital where she later died<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>Three additional suspects&comma; involved in burglaries in the area&comma; also in custod<&sol;strong><strong>y<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"collection collection-cards">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"card collection-item" data-type&equals;"text">&NewLine;<div class&equals;" card-content ">&NewLine;<h6 data-page&equals;"1"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-293498" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;05&sol;Dawnta-Anthony-Harris-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Dawnta Anthony Harris 1" width&equals;"1400" height&equals;"858" &sol;><strong>16-year-old Dawnta Anthony Harris &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; is being charged as an adult in  the death of police officer Amy Caprio <&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p data-page&equals;"1">A 16-year-old boy has been arrested and charged as an adult with first-degree murder in the death of a Baltimore County police officer&comma; who was fatally struck by a vehicle on Monday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"card collection-item" data-type&equals;"text">&NewLine;<div class&equals;" card-content ">&NewLine;<p>Dawnta Anthony Harris is expected to appear in court on Tuesday in connection with the death of Officer Amy Caprio&comma; who was identified <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;baltimoresun&period;com&sol;news&sol;maryland&sol;crime&sol;bs-md-co-officer-killed-20180522-story&period;html" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">by the Baltimore Sun<&sol;a>&period; He is being held without bail&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"card collection-item" data-type&equals;"text">&NewLine;<div class&equals;" card-content ">&NewLine;<p>The Baltimore County Police Department said Tuesday that three additional suspects who were involved in burglaries in the area are also in custody&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"card collection-item" data-type&equals;"text">&NewLine;<div class&equals;" card-content ">&NewLine;<p>Officer Caprio&comma; 29&comma;  was run over after responding to a &&num;8220&semi;suspicious vehicle&&num;8221&semi; in a Baltimore suburb at approximately 2 p&period;m&period; She was rushed to a nearby hospital&comma; where she passed away&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-293500" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;05&sol;Amy-Caprio-2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Amy Caprio 2&period;jpg" width&equals;"685" height&equals;"384" &sol;><strong>Harris ran over officer Amy Caprio when she asked him to step out of a burglary getaway vehicle on Monday May&comma; 21<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"card collection-item" data-type&equals;"text">&NewLine;<div class&equals;" card-content ">&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;A witness to the fatal attack told his father that he saw Caprio pull her gun on a jeep before she was struck&comma; according to the newspaper&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"card collection-item card-border-bottom card-border-bottom-thick card-border-bottom-dark" data-type&equals;"text">&NewLine;<div class&equals;" card-content ">&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;She basically landed almost in front of my mailbox&comma;&&num;8221&semi; dad Tony Kurek told the Sun&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Baltimore PD identified the officer killed as a married four-year veteran of the force assigned to the Parkville precinct&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The fallen officer&&num;8217&semi;s husband on Tuesday morning told 105&period;7 radio&&num;8217&semi;e&comma; The Norris &amp&semi; Long Show&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I’m just still grieving&period; I don’t know&comma; I just feel like talking about it is definitely better than not&comma;” Tim Caprio told Ed Norris&comma; one of the show’s hosts and a former Baltimore city police commissioner&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Caprio was responding to a call around 2 p&period;m&period; Monday on Linwen Way to investigate a suspicious vehicle in the area&period; A 911 caller reported a black Jeep Wrangler near her home&comma; and said three &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;suspicious subjects got out of it and were walking around homes&period;” The suspects had broken into the home&comma; and that the first arriving officer was on the ground after confronting the driver of the Jeep&comma; the caller told the dispatcher&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;When the responding officer asked the suspect to step out of the vehicle&comma; he did not comply&comma; instead the driver sped forward&comma; ramming the officer with the vehicle&period; She landed about 20 feet away&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The suspects&&num;8217&semi; getaway Jeep was later found abandoned in front of a home  on a nearby street&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Harris was arrested a block from where the Jeep was parked&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"card collection-item" data-type&equals;"text">&NewLine;<div class&equals;" card-content ">&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-293499" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;05&sol;Baltimore-police-conduct-search-after-the-death-of-a-county-police-officer-Amy-Caprio-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Baltimore police conduct search after the death of a county police officer&comma; Amy Caprio 1&period;jpg" width&equals;"1150" height&equals;"647" &sol;>Officers from Baltimore PD converge to search for three additional suspects in the burglary that led to the death  of officer Amy Caprio<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"card collection-item card-border-bottom card-border-bottom-thick card-border-bottom-dark" data-type&equals;"text">&NewLine;<div class&equals;" card-content ">&NewLine;<p>During an interview Harris admitted to police that he was sitting in the driver seat while the three other suspects committed a burglary&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He told officers he saw Caprio drive up the block and that she got out of her car and demanded that the get out of the Jeep&period; Instead&comma; he &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;drove at the officer&comma;” the documents said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Police would not confirm whether the Jeep had been stolen&comma; but they believe it was also involved in an earlier burglary&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The  remaining suspects&comma; who police considered armed and dangerous&comma; extended into the evening&period; All three are now in custody&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Detectives have verified that the group were involved in burglaries in the area&comma; police said&period; Officers were in the area Tuesday to canvass for property stolen during the burglaries&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;

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