https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/brothers-indicted-after-attack-that-left-officer-dead-in-prince-georges-county/2016/05/10/963ed1a8-16df-11e6-924d-838753295f9a_story.htmlThree brothers accused of carrying out and recording an attack on a Prince George’s County police station that resulted in one officer mistakenly shooting another were indicted Tuesday on charges that included murder and attempted murder.
Authorities say Michael Ford, 22, planned and executed a March 13 attack on police in Landover, while Malik Ford, 21, and Elijah Ford, 18, recorded the shooting on their cellphones. Jacai Colson, 28, an undercover narcotics detective who was off-duty in street clothes when he responded to the shooting, was killed by a colleague who police said mistook him as a threat.
Michael Ford was charged with 55 counts, including second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder, Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Angela Alsobrooks (D) said in a short news conference.
“This caused tremendous hurt,” Alsobrooks said, noting that Colson’s mother had just spent her first Mother’s Day without her son. “We are going to continue to move forward with this case in an attempt to bring some peace to the family of Officer Colson as well as to this department and this community.”
The Fords were also charged with the attempted murders of “several” of the officers present during the incident, Alsobrooks said, and all the brothers face multiple life sentences.
Malik Ford and Elijah Ford would be charged under the legal theory of “accomplice liability,” she said. They face charges of attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
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