Jacai Colson
A gunman opened fire on Sunday on a Prince George’s County police station in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, killing one officer in what authorities called an unprovoked attack, before the assailant and a second suspect were arrested.
The accused gunman, who was not identified, suffered non-life-threatening injuries in an ensuing gunfight with officers, and was being treated at a nearby hospital, county police said. The second suspect was taken into custody a short time later following a search of the area.
County Police Chief Henry Stawinski said he could offer no explanation for what might have precipitated the attack on the District 3 police station, which lies adjacent to police headquarters in Landover, Maryland, about 8 miles (13 km) east of Washington.
“It wasn’t about anything,” Stawinski told reporters at a news conference outside the hospital where the slain officer, Jacai Colson, 29, a four-year veteran of the force, was declared dead. “This man launched an attack on a police station and engaged several Prince George’s County police officers in a gunfight, to which they responded heroically.”
