Joel Fitzgerald
Fort Worth Police Chief Joel Fitzgerald has withdrawn his name from consideration to become Baltimore police commissioner, the Fort Worth Police Department tweeted this morning.
Fitzgerald was due to appear in Baltimore over the weekend to meet with community members and tonight at a hearing with the City Council’s Executive Appointments Committee, but those were postponed on Jan. 3 after Fitzgerald’s son required emergency surgery.
In a statement, Mayor Catherine Pugh said Fitzgerald will remain in Texas to be with his son, who is having a second brain surgery tomorrow “to remove a mass that was discovered late last week.”
“Our fervent prayers are with him and his family during what is unquestionably a troubling and stressful period for them,” she said.
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