City officer shot moved to Shock Trauma
The off-duty city police officer who was shot during an attempted robbey outside his Northwest Baltimore home was moved this morning from Sinai Hospital to Maryland Shock Trauma Center and has been downgraded from serious to critical condition.
Police tell me that Aaron Harris has now had at least five surgeries as he slowly recovers from a bullet wound to the stomach. On Monday, the two 16-year-old suspects were ordered held without bail on adult charges of attempted first-degree murder, armed robbery and a bunch of others.
They've been identified as Craig Tillett (above left) and Kevon Wilson (right). Charging documents filed in the case say that the officer was getting out of his personal car on Highgate Drive when the teens "began firing an unknown caliber handgun" at him. Harris was hit three times and returned fire, managing to hit Harris in the left leg.
Tillett walked in later to the emergeny room at Sinai, the same hospital where the officer was being treated, and police said he first gave a false story about being shot in Park Heights but then confessed and gave up the name of his accomplice.
Comments
where's the side story about how they're so underprivileged, and their mom was on crack?
Posted by: oz | September 29, 2009 11:14 AM
Wow
Posted by: vedo | September 30, 2009 12:21 AM
I hope that the officer will recover fully. I wish he had been able to hit both of the shooters with fatal torso shots! If/when they get out of jail they will do try again.
Posted by: Bryan | September 30, 2009 9:11 AM
Even if these boys had no parents, they knew full well what they were doing, and made a choice to act and shoot. Baltimore City residents should be ashamed of themselves for closig their eyes and accepting parents leaving young boys and girls to grow up on their own, right on thir blocks, and not giving a hand when its so obvious the kids need one (or more). then, when the young people commit heinous crimes, people run inside out of fear and point fingers. Everyone needs to take repsonsibility for these heinous crimes in our city. Parents who can't let go of their "personal issues" to take care of their children, neighbors who watch as lone children grow up without parents, and the children themselves, because they know in their hearts and minds that shooting another human being is absolutely wrong. I think its fine that they will be charged as adults.
Posted by: dd | September 30, 2009 12:58 PM