Overview
- The Attorney General’s Independent Investigations Division is leading the inquiry and is reviewing body-camera footage for a customary release in roughly 20 days.
- Officials identified the officers as Pfc. Joseph Riebau, Officer Cody Bostic, and Officer Joel Rodriguez, all on paid administrative leave and equipped with body cameras.
- Police say Alexander LaMorie, 25, approached officers with a knife and ignored commands before three officers fired; he died at the scene after lifesaving attempts.
- Howard County Police report that two responding officers were Crisis Intervention Team–certified and the third was a trained negotiator, and the department says about 80% of its force holds CIT certification.
- The shooting outside Patuxent Commons unsettled residents of the disability-focused complex as LaMorie’s family and advocates call for stronger de-escalation and disability-informed crisis response, invoking past cases such as Ethan Saylor.