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Maryland Attorney General's Office investigating deadly police shooting in Wheaton
The Maryland Attorney General’s Office is investigating a police shooting in Wheaton, Maryland.
Police were responding to an assault in progress call on the 3400 block of Janet Road Saturday night. The Maryland Attorney General’s Office says officers encountered a man who was holding what police believe to be a knife. Investigators say the man did not comply with commands and was ultimately shot and killed by an officer.
“When the first officer arrived, he encountered an adult male who was armed with
an object,” said Montgomery County Police Spokeswoman Shiera Goff.
According to the Maryland Attorney General’s independent investigation division, which investigates police shootings in the state, officers repeatedly told the suspect to “drop the knife.”
Investigators say the man ignored those commands and then began to cross the street. That’s when an officer opened fire.
Officials did not say how many times the man was shot. According to the Attorney General’s office, police recovered a grill fork near the man’s body, but there’s no mention of police ever recovering a knife.
“The individual was approaching the officer as well as the victims that he had allegedly assaulted earlier before officers arrived,” Goff said.
Investigators have not yet identified the man who was killed, nor the officer who fired at him. Police also haven’t revealed much about the alleged assault committed by the man or how many people may have been involved, but a spokeswoman for the department did say no one was seriously hurt.
The Maryland Attorney General’s independent investigation division says it plans on releasing body camera footage within 20 days of the shooting.
The officer who shot the man has been placed on administrative leave as that investigation continues.
Maryland schools made nation-leading strides in their recovery from students’ learning loss in the pandemic, data show.
Maryland schools made nation-leading strides in their recovery from students’ learning loss in the pandemic, according to new data.
They ranked third in the nation in their students’ reading recovery rates, and were fifth in math recovery, according to the 2025 Education Scorecard from Harvard and Stanford Universities and Dartmouth College.
D.C. led the U.S. in math and reading recovery.
The data was presented at the Maryland State Board of Education meeting Thursday.
Trish Brennan-Gac, executive director of literacy nonprofit Maryland READS, said the state board is correct to celebrate gains in reading, but proficiency is “nowhere near where we need to be.”
“It is not that we are No. 3-ranked in reading proficiency,” she told WTOP. “It’s a rate of change, and we are making a faster rate of change,” than most school districts nationally.
Brennan-Gac was at the meeting to ask that the state board consider ways to reduce the use of technology in classroom instruction and support a return to print and textbooks in schools.
“This is no longer a fringe concern. It is a growing movement, and it’s not about social media and phones,” she told the board.
Brennan-Gac said the board and Maryland schools superintendent Carey Wright can take a “visible meaningful leadership role.”
“You can develop transition guidance and funding pathways for districts that are ready to move now, and send a clear signal to the field that Maryland prioritizes developmentally appropriate instruction aligned to brain research that shows how books, not tech-based platforms, are effective in wiring kids’ brains for reading,” she said.
The Maryland State Department of Education has issued guidance to school districts on the use of cellphones in schools, and this year issued guidance on the use of artificial intelligence. In both instances, the state has made clear that it leaves implementation of policies to individual school districts.
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