BALTIMORE — Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison on Thursday defended the department’s decision to wait five days to serve a search warrant on a robbery suspect who investigators said killed a man during that time.
“I firmly stand by the decisions,” Harrison said in a statement sent to department members Thursday following questions by news media about the delay.
Baltimore County Police received a signed search warrant for the Northeast Baltimore home of 18-year-old Sahiou Kargbo, a Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High School student, who was wanted in a prior armed robbery at a Parkville Wendy’s. Four days after the warrant was approved, James Blue III, a veteran Amtrak conductor and husband of a Baltimore Police Department lieutenant, was found fatally shot on Walker Avenue in Northeast Baltimore.
