No charges filed in October fatal shooting by Baltimore Police
Todd Karpovich
The Baltimore Sun
March 4, 2025
Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown will not seek charges against three Baltimore Police officers who fatally shot a suspect in October.
Robert Phillip Nedd Jr. was fired at 19 times on Oct. 9 after he left the scene of a traffic collision in West Baltimore’s Upton neighborhood, according to the attorney general’s office Monday. The confrontation was caught on body camera footage that was released by police.
After a foot pursuit, officers surrounded Nedd as he stood at a hole in a fence near the intersection of Argyle Avenue and Pitcher Street. Police called for him to show his hands, with one saying, “My gun is pointed at you. Hands up.”
Nedd did not comply and displayed a gun, at which time officers discharged their firearms, striking him, according to the attorney general’s report. Officers rendered emergency medical aid and requested emergency medical services.
Nedd was pronounced dead on the scene, and a loaded handgun was recovered near his body, according to the attorney general’s report.
Police officials said they do not believe Nedd fired the weapon, but he was prohibited from possessing it due to his criminal history. Nedd was sentenced in 2016 to 14 years in prison for a racketeering conspiracy conviction and being a felon in possession of a firearm, according to court documents.
The Baltimore Police foot pursuit policy states that officers should not pursue solely for citations or curfew violations. Foot pursuits are appropriate only when there is reasonable, articulable suspicion to believe the individual has committed or is about to commit a crime and when there is a valid law enforcement need to detain the suspect that outweighs any threat posed by pursuing, according to the policy.
The policy urges officers to “weigh the seriousness of the offense against the need to apprehend and the consideration of member and public safety.”
After completing its investigation and evaluating all the available evidence, the Office of the Attorney General determined that none of the officers involved in the fatal officer-involved shooting committed a crime under Maryland law. As a result, Brown declined to prosecute any of the officers in this case.