The Associated Press
BALTIMORE (AP) - Police officers in Baltimore have shot suspects 10 times this year. One of them has been shot on two different occasions.
Dale Fauntleroy was shot in both legs Aug. 9 by a Maryland Transportation Authority Police officer. He was shot again Friday by a plainclothes Maryland Transit Administration officer after an armed robbery at a Chinese restaurant, city police said.
Around 1:20 a.m. Friday, two men brandished a gun and announced a robbery at the Po Shan carryout where Officer Orlando Bordley was waiting for his order, administration spokesman Richard Scher said. During a scuffle, one man punched Bordley in the face and Bordley threw down $300 from his wallet.
Bordley chased the fleeing men, announcing himself as a police officer. One man fired at the officer and missed. Bordley fired back hitting Fauntleroy in the buttocks, city police said. Scher said Fauntleroy was also hit in the leg. The other man fled.
Bordley was placed on routine administrative leave, Scher said.
Fauntleroy, 20, has a criminal record that includes 11 arrests, said Baltimore police spokesman Matt Jablow.
“For any other city and for any other criminal justice system, this would be unbelievable,” he said. “For ours, unfortunately, it’s not.”
Fauntleroy was released from Maryland Shock Trauma Center Friday morning and taken to Central Booking, according to his grandfather Leslie B. Fauntleroy.
Attempted murder and murder charges against Fauntleroy in two separate incidents in the spring have been dropped because witnesses could not be found, said city state’s attorney’s office spokesman Joseph Sviatko.
Fauntleroy was arrested again in August, after he was shot in both legs by a Maryland Transportation Authority Police officer.
Authority police Officer Devin Walker initially told Baltimore police that Fauntleroy shot at him while he sat on the steps of a house. Last month, charges against Fauntleroy were dropped when Walker recanted some of his statements and refused to cooperate with prosecutors.
Fauntleroy was released and Walker was fired.
Leslie Fauntleroy said he talked with his grandson about their impressions of police after the first shooting.
“He said he doesn’t like police because of the last time,” Leslie Fauntleroy recalled. “I said, ‘They’re only doing their jobs. Sometimes it’s in your favor. Sometimes it’s not.”’