Monday, July 16, 2012
Officer Artson, a 17-year Baltimore County Police veteran, was named as the officer who shot and killed Ronald Melvin Cox Jr. on July 12.
Baltimore County Police have named the officer involved in a shooting that left a sword-wielding man in Reisterstown dead Thursday night. Officer Artson, a 17-year veteran assigned to the police tactical unit, shot and killed Ronald Melvin Cox Jr. in an upstairs bedroom in a house on the 400 block of Highmeadow Road in Reisterstown after Cox struck his bunker, a type of shield, with a sword, according to a Baltimore County Police news release. The department does not release the first names of officers involved in shootings. Artson was placed on administrative leave after the shooting, pending review of the incident, police said. Police entered the home serving an attempted murder warrant and encountered no one on the first floor. They …
Friday, July 13, 2012
Police charged a Reisterstown woman and two others in an incident in which a Reisterstown teen was abducted and shot.
Police have charged a Reisterstown woman and two others with attempted murder and kidnapping in connection with the shooting of a Reisterstown teen in June. The trio were arrested at the same Highmeadow Road home were police were forced to shoot a sword-wielding man late Thursday night. Laura Christian Karr, 24, of the 400 block of Highmeadow Road in Reisterstown, Donald George Peoples Jr., 21, of the 4200 block of Saint Georges Avenue in Baltimore and Chiquita Sketers, 21, of the 3400 block of Carriage Hill Circle in Randallstown were charged Friday with attempted first- and second-degree murder, kidnapping, first- and second-degree assault and gun changes, according to a Howard County Police news release. Peoples and Karr were arrested …
Police shot and killed Ronald Melvin Cox Jr. in Reisterstown Thursday night after he attacked an officer with a sword.
UPDATED (2:59 p.m.)—Baltimore County Police officers shot and killed a Reisterstown man last night after he attacked police with a sword while they were serving a warrant. Ronald Melvin Cox Jr., 48, of the 400 block of Highmeadow Road, was pronounced dead at the scene in his home at 11:46 p.m. Thursday, according to a news release. Officers were at the home at 11:40 p.m. to serve a search warrant in connection with an attempted murder case. As officers entered an upstairs bedroom, Cox swung a large sword at one of the officers and hit the bunker the offer was carrying. The officer, a 17-year veteran in the tactical unit, opened fire to stop the attack, striking Cox, the news release said. Cox was pronounced dead at the scene, and his body …
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Zoobie
10:38 pm on Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Thanks for clearing that up Theadore. I suspected things were still the same. more ›