On the evening of Tuesday, February 24, two Baltimore Police officers, Omar Rodriguez and Arthur Fuog, fired numerous shots at 37-year-old Dwight Hawkins after a short footchase, killing him in the street in his neighborhood of Belair-Edison. Rodriguez, a member of the Group Violence Unit, was also one of the officers involved in the death of beloved arabber Bilal Abdullah by the Upton Metro Station in June, the department confirmed.
“They went into the liquor store, and the individual and several other people in the store started to move around a little bit. The officers believed this individual was armed,” Commissioner Richard Worley said about the Tuesday shooting.
According to the Independent Investigations Division of the Attorney General’s Office, which investigates all cases of police-involved fatalities, the officers followed Hawkins as he left the store. Outside the store, Hawkins began to run…