![]() Pruitt then fired multiple rounds, striking and killing Costlow. “Shortly thereafter, the driver picked up a large stick and began striking the deputy over the head,” it states in the report. Pruitt, who was nearby, arrived on the scene and reported that the driver rushed at him and began attacking him, according to the Howard County State’s Attorneys report. They told police the driver of the Volkswagen was acting strangely and was trying to fight people. Observers called police to say that someone driving a Volkswagen caused another car to swerve off the road and into a pole and then continued on, hitting a second vehicle head-on. 6 were reasonable as Kevin Costlow repeatedly swung at and struck Pruitt and also refused to obey Pruitt’s commands. Pruitt, an 18-year-veteran of the force was placed on paid administrative leave following the shooting of Costlow, 52.Īccording to Montgomery County Police, a multivehicle crash occurred in the 6000 block of Olney Laytonsville Road in Gaithersburg at 8 a.m. That office reviewed the incident under an agreement to take the lead in police-involved fatal shootings in Montgomery County.Īccording to the report, Deputy Frank Pruitt’s actions on Feb. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Deputy who shot and killed a Laytonsville man, who multiple witnesses said was acting erratically and struck the deputy with a long piece of wood, acted reasonably and will not be charged, according to Howard County State’s Attorney’s Office.
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