From the Havre de Grace Police Department:
On 9/28/2013 at 4:20pm, officers from the Havre de Grace Police Department responded to the area of the 700 block of Erie Street in reference to a reported fight in progress. Upon arrival, officers were not able to locate the reported fight. During the process of the officers searching, they came across a subject who barricaded them self in a residence. Officers initiated a dialogue with the subject who was alone in a room inside the residence.
The Havre de Grace Police Department requested assistance from the Harford County Crisis Negotiation Team and the Harford County Special Response Team. At that point, the Harford County Sheriff’s Office assumed tactical command of the scene.
Around 7:40pm, the incident came to a conclusion with the subject being deceased. The circumstances surrounding the death of the suspect are still under investigation by the Harford County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigation Division. The investigation is still ongoing and numerous interviews are in the process of being conducted.
For more information regarding this incident please contact the Harford County Sheriff’s Office of Media Relations and Public Relations at 410-836-5403.
From the Harford County Sheriff’s Office:
[September 28, 2013, Havre DE Grace, MD] — On Saturday, September 28, 2013 at approximately 4:20 pm Officers of the Havre de Grace Police Department responded to the 700 block of Erie Street for a Fight in Progress. Officers arrived and discovered a male suspect who was possibly armed and holding someone against their will. Harford County Sheriff’s Office personnel from the Crisis Negotiation Team and the Special Response Team were called to assist.
Preliminary investigation revealed that the suspect had barricaded himself in a room of an apartment at the location. As police were negotiating with the suspect for his surrender, the suspect pointed an object at the responding officers. He was shot by a member of the SRT unit. The suspect was pronounced deceased at the scene. Investigators have tentative identification on the suspect but the name is being held pending notification of next of kin.
Initial information provided to officers was that the suspect had a protective order against him stemming from an earlier incident with a female who resided at the location. No other information is available at this time as the follow-up investigation is being handled by Harford County Sheriff’s Detectives and is continuing.
This pos was involved in the drug game, always wore his blue hat and hated on bloods. His face book page is mostly public and has him admitting to drug dealing and showing off several pistols in numerous photos. He had at times weekly contact with the hdg pd. Glad I will not be paying for this douche bags rehabilitation.
The news article sounds as if it were written my a 3rd grader. It’s painful to read. If you want to be a journalist, please take a hint from the information provided to you. The police department’s article is written very well.
What news article? These are both press releases, one from HDG PD and one from HCSO. One should make sure they have their own facts correct before criticizing others.
Complain to Jesse Bane, he now has three people working in his public information office and still can’t get it right.
This was a HDGPD incident and should fall under their press office I would think. Complain to Theressa.
Every human being is worth saving no matter what their past says about them!! This is also someone’s son, nephew, and brother…my best friend’s brother. He might not have led the life you choose, but he was a human worth saving. God knows I can only hope and pray that nobody in your family falls below your definition of being worthy and becomes a “douche bag”! Remember that.
Those who shit on religion and go on about the wonders of Darwinism should never be proponents of welfare systems or rehabilitation efforts.
Here is a link to his facebook page. You can see all of the wonderful gun pictures
https://www.facebook.com/austin.jones.9277?fref=ts
You know I would like to say I’m surprised by how cruel people can be when someone is passed away but I’m not. I also don’t understand why people that talk bad about him hides under a screen name I mean to me that’s being a coward. Austin did not make a good decision yesterday did he have a clean record or past no but he was a human a person he breathed the same air as us and he to felt pain like us. People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw rocks he has family that has to read this junk I hope you never have to lose a family member the way they did and don’t say never my family because it can happen to anyone. So Man up put your real name on here like a real man would don’t hide behind a screen name
Nobody is forcing anyone to view anything Mr Cuffley.
Hey Tonya, did it ever cross your mind this may have been suicide by cop. I don’t know what Austin was thinking and neither do you. Just think about it. You don’t deal with Erie every day. We do!
So Dewey, no screen name for you? Your last name is “says” original.
Both press releases make no mention of any weapon recovered at the scene. Are we to assume that the suspect was unarmed? Additionally, the press releases make no mention of what was pointed at the officers that caused them to shoot the suspect. Surely the HCSO can be more forthcoming than this.
“tired of runnin tired of runnin from the law..thankful i did not end up in a cofin..”
Thankful no innocent civilians or police were hurt. Prayers to the family of the man killed.
34-Yr-Old Havre de Grace Man Had Released Hostage, Made “Overt Gesture with Black Object” Prior to Being Shot By SRT
http://www.daggerpress.com/2013/09/29/34-yr-old-havre-de-grace-man-had-released-hostage-made-overt-gesture-with-black-object-prior-to-being-shot-by-srt/
Cuffley is my las name anyone that is a someone only needs to hear Dewey and I don’t hide behind a keyboard
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Watch out for that crazy cab driver. Perhaps he used to buy drugs off of the deceased?
Jesse Bane has lost control of those he’s suppose to lead in my opinion. HIs deputy seem to do whatever they want when they want and to whom i.e. shoot and kill unarmed kids.
The detention center is operated by many individuals who carry a huge chip on their shoulder. I actually expected better from Jesse Bane too!!