The leaders of the Independent Review Board hired by the Baltimore Police Department to investigate Det. Sean Suiter’s mystifying death last November said today that their findings “have built a compelling case” that Suiter committed suicide the evening of Nov. 15, 2017, at Bennett Place.
Almost equally compelling is the narrative that police officials misled the public about the entire investigation in those first hours and days afterward. Shortly after Suiter was shot, then-Commissioner Kevin Davis told the world the veteran homicide detective was mortally wounded by a “cold, callous killer” while following up on a 2016 triple murder. He said that individual and Suiter had conversed briefly, that the shooter may have been wounded himself in an ensuing struggle and that police were “canvassing doctor’s offices and hospitals,” the report noted.
But “it is not clear why Commissioner Davis made these statements,” the seven-member review board wrote this week after a four-and-a-half month investigation. “Neither the IRB nor the homicide detectives involved saw any evidence that: 1) Detective Suiter approached a man in the vacant lot; 2) they had any conversation; or 3) that the shooter may have been wounded.”
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