Police killings
2013-2020

Michael T. Ward

Male, Black

Date of the incident: 7/9/2017

Salisbury, Wicomico, MD
405 Punkin Ct

Two Maryland state troopers were off-duty and working security at a 24-hr. restaurant. One trooper shot and killed a man who may have been in a gunbattle moments before who allegedly pointed a gun at him. Michael T. Ward Jr. and Jaquan M. Griffin were killed. The trooper allegedly killed Ward. Moments later, Griffin staggered into the restaurant from the parking lot and collapsed on the floor and two friends took him in their car to Peninsula Regional Medical Center.