Prince George's County Officers Involved In Deadly Shooting Of Leonard Shand Won't Be Charged
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (WJZ) -- The Prince George's County police officers involved in a deadly shooting of an armed man in Hyattsville last September will not be indicted, the county's state's attorney's office said Thursday.
A grand jury decided against charging Sergeant David Cheatham, Officer Dario Daniel and Officer Kesha Nsiah-Ababio in the shooting death of Leonard Shand near The Mall at Prince George's on September 26, 2019. All three had been put on administrative leave following the shooting.
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Officials said Shand, 49, of New Carrollton, a regular at a Starbucks in the area, assaulted an employee at the coffee shop with a weapon on September 23. Three days later when he went back to the store, a manager called police.
Shand, who was armed with two knives, didn't drop them when officers told him to and wasn't fazed by a Taser or pepper spray. He then walked to a nearby parking lot, charging at the officers after they fired bean bag rounds at him.
The officers also used a flashbang to get him to stop charging at them but that did not work. They then shot him with their guns, hitting him multiple times.
A use-of-force expert the state's attorney's office hired to review the case deemed it reasonable.
