Assistant Chief Newsham gives latest on fatal police-involved shooting. pic.twitter.com/X9VTJYZLyI
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(Updated at 4:13 p.m.) A D.C. Police officer shot and killed a man who drove his motorcycle into a police car near 3rd and M streets NW early this morning.
Police received a call for a motorcyclist “driving erratically” on the 1700 block of U Street around 4:20 a.m., according to an MPD press release.
An officer located and stopped the motorcyclist near the intersection of 3rd and M streets NW, which is about a block north of New York Ave. NW. When the officer began exiting his car on the passenger side to apprehend the motorcyclist, the man on the motorcycle “intentionally drove into the passenger door,” according to authorities.
“At that point, shots were fired,” MPD Assistant Chief Peter Newsham said in a video the police department shared this morning.
The motorcyclist, identified by police as 31-year-old Terrence Sterling, was brought to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Newsham said the officer who shot the driver has been placed on routine leave and an investigation into the shooting is ongoing.
Read the full MPD press release regarding the shooting below:
From MPD 3rd District listserv on Yahoo! Groups… here is the news release about a shooting early this morning in Adams Morgan in the 2200-block of Champlain Street NW (east side of the Marie Reed Center). The suspect was fatally shot and two officers were wounded; one is in the hospital.
