Baltimore Police Officer Shot and Killed
DAVID E. LEIVA
Associated Press
BALTIMORE - A city police officer was shot and killed Saturday night, and investigators blamed a man the officer had arrested days earlier, police said.
Ten-year veteran Brian Winder, 36, was attacked by two men, one of whom Winder had recently arrested for selling pirated DVDs and CDs, Police Commissioner Kevin Clark said. Police had a suspect in custody and were searching for a second man. Clark declined to say how and when the suspect was arrested.
Officials declined to release details of the shooting. Spokesman Matt Jablow said Winder was talking to a dispatcher when he was attacked and shot several times inside a liquor store about 9 p.m.. Winder was pronounced dead at a hospital.
"Tonight I lost a member of my family," Clark said.
Winder is survived by his wife and three children.
The last Baltimore police officer killed in the line of duty was Detective Thomas Newman, in November 2002.
A jury in February sentenced Jovan House to life in prison without parole for killing Newman. Newman was killed outside a bar in retaliation for testifying against a suspect in an earlier shooting that wounded the officer, authorities said.
