{"id":64819,"date":"2016-03-14T11:45:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T15:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64819"},"modified":"2016-03-14T18:15:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T22:15:07","slug":"jacai-colson-murdered-in-attack-on-police-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64819","title":{"rendered":"Jacai Colson murdered in attack on police station (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=64820\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-64820\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Jacai-Colson-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jacai Colson\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-64820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Jacai-Colson-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Jacai-Colson-222x333.jpg 222w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Jacai-Colson.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Two brothers were arrested yesterday in what appears to be an unprovoked attack on the Prince George\u2019s County police station last night. One officer, 28-year-old, 4 year veteran of the force, Jacai Colson was murdered as officers poured from the station to confront the killers. Apparently, one of the brothers fled the scene as the firing began and the shooting was only carried out by the other.<\/p>\n<p>According to a witness quoted in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/public-safety\/one-officer-shot-possible-active-shooter-outside-prince-georges-police-headquarters\/2016\/03\/13\/e398064e-e95e-11e5-bc08-3e03a5b41910_story.html?hpid=hp_local-news_pgpolice-shooting-525pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory\">Washington Post<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c[The gunman] fired one shot, and then he started pacing back and forth, then fired another shot,\u201d said Lascelles Grant, a nurse. \u201cWho would shoot a police station on Sunday evening? This is insane.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then, police began pouring out of the station.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust looking outside, I\u2019m like, \u2018Oh my God, look at all these police officers running out, putting their lives really in danger,\u2019?\u201d Grant said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And comments from the peanut gallery;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Their grandmother, Deidre Ramos, 60, of Hyattsville, said [the gunmen] were arrested in connection with the shooting but she said police had the wrong suspects. \u201cThey weren\u2019t involved,\u201d she said. Asked if police arrested the wrong people, she said, \u201cYes.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/maryland-policeman-killed-unprovoked-attack-chief-005009853.html#\">Reuters<\/a> reports that the police chief isn&#8217;t aware of any motivation for the shooting spree;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Prince George&#8217;s 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 county police headquarters in Landover, Maryland, about 8 miles (13 km) east of Washington.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t about anything,&#8221; Stawinski told reporters at a news conference outside the hospital where the slain undercover officer, Jacai Colson, 28, was declared dead. Colson, a four-year veteran of the force, had been rushed to the hospital by a fellow officer in the back of a squad car.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>UPDATED:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox5dc.com\/news\/107271571-story\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fox 5<\/a> reports that three brothers have been arrested now and that it may have been an attempted &#8220;suicide by cop&#8221;. It looks like the two brothers who weren&#8217;t firing were filming it on their cell phones.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox5dc.com\/news\/local-news\/107491132-story\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rumors are<\/a> that it may have been friendly fire that killed Officer Colson.<\/p>\n<p>The governors of Pennsylvania (Colson&#8217;s home state) and Maryland have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lex18.com\/story\/31464428\/the-latest-state-flags-lowered-for-slain-maryland-officer\" rel=\"nofollow\">ordered flags at half staff<\/a> for the young officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two brothers were arrested yesterday in what appears to be an unprovoked attack on the Prince &hellip; <a title=\"Jacai Colson murdered in attack on police station (Updated)\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64819\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jacai Colson murdered in attack on police station (Updated)<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[227],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}