Four officers involved in the fatal shooting of a man in downtown Silver Spring during a traffic stop last year will not face charges, according to authorities.
The officers fatally shot Osman Sesay, 27, of Silver Spring during a traffic stop near the intersection of Wayne and Dartmouth avenues in the early morning hours of Dec. 29, according to authorities.
Authorities have said an off-duty Montgomery County police officer got a call for a shooting in the 900 block of Bonifant Street around 4:25 a.m. that day. Police have said the off-duty officer found a man who had been shot and injured. The man was taken to a local hospital. The off-duty officer saw the shooting suspect’s car when he arrived at the scene.
The off-duty officer gave a description of the shooting suspect’s car to on-duty officers and those officers saw a car that matched the description in the area of Wayne and Dartmouth avenues about half a mile away, according to a report released Thursday by the Maryland Attorney General’s Independent Investigations Division.
Officer Nathan Lenhart conducted a traffic stop as backup also responded. Sesay got out of the rear passenger side of the car against officers’ orders, according to the report. The report said Sesay pointed a handgun at officers, and four officers fired at him. Sesay was struck by the gunfire and died at the scene, according to the report.