What happened to Keith McLeod?

 

Keith McLeod was shot to death by a Baltimore County police officer in Reisterstown Wednesday after trying to pass off a fake prescription at a pharmacy, then running from the officer, police said. An employee at Nature Care Pharmacy in the Reisterstown Village shopping center in the first block of Main Street called police just before 5 p.m in 2015, to report the fake prescription, police said. 

The responding officer saw the suspect in the shopping center parking lot and chased him across the street to the parking lot of the Word of Life International Church, where a "confrontation" occurred and the officer fired multiple shots, Baltimore County police spokeswoman Elise Armacost said. The suspect was identified by police Friday as 19-year-old Keith Harrison McLeod, whose last known address is the 1200 block of Faraday Place NE, Washington, D.C. 

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CCTV footage shows McLeod reaching around to the small of his back and abruptly whipping his hand around and pointing it toward the officer. McLeod was unarmed, holding up “finger guns”, but no weapon. According to police, the hand motion caused the officer to fire his gun. 

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The officer is on routine administrative leave. Once the homicide investigation is complete, the Baltimore County State's Attorney's office will review the case. 

 

What can we do? 

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1. Share this story as much as possible. No updates have been publicized, and it appears that no action was taken against the officer who killed McLeod.