According to police, officers attempted to stop a Kia Sorento whose transience tags had expired on Sept. 29.
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According to police, three Maryland teenagers in a stolen pickup truck crashed and died while fleeing an attempt to impede traffic.
“The officers briefly attempted to pursue the Kia, but lost sight of it and disengaged,” he said.
About 4 minutes later, according to an “independent witness,” police said the driver of the Kia used the shoulder of a road to attempt to pass, got lost, and crashed into a tree in Mitchellville.
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The Maryland Attorney General’s Office decided that the incident did not meet the parameters of an officer-involved death. The site of the twist of fate was more than 3 km from the site of the attempt to stop traffic.
Investigators would later discover that the vehicle in question was previously hijacked by an armed kidnapping in the city of Greenbelt, police said.