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[MKSheppard]

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U.S. Deputy Kills Driver In Dispute, Police Say

By Allan Lengel and Nicole Fuller
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, October 29, 2004; Page B01

A traffic dispute between two motorists on Rockville Pike turned deadly last night when one driver, an off-duty deputy U.S. marshal, fatally shot the other in the parking lot of a busy shopping center, police said.

The federal law enforcement officer, who was driving with his family in a sport-utility vehicle, exchanged words about 8:30 p.m. with a young man driving alone in a red Chevrolet Camaro with New Jersey tags, said Capt. John Fitzgerald, a Montgomery County police spokesman.

The two drivers pulled into the Mid-Pike Plaza, where they got into a fistfight, Fitzgerald said.

"Preliminary information is that the deputy marshal tried to defuse and disengage, to calm it down and settle it, and wanted to get the local police involved," Fitzgerald said.

He said the young man got back into his car and drove toward or near the off-duty officer, who then opened fire, shooting multiple times. Officers found nine shell casings at the scene. The young man was taken to Suburban Hospital, where he was pronounced dead a short time later.

Fitzgerald could not confirm reports that the dispute stemmed from a fender bender.

A witness at the scene offered a different account of the incident at the Rockville shopping center where some had gone shopping for Halloween.

Eugenia Hull of Silver Spring said she and her sons, ages 12 and 15, were walking through the parking lot of the center, in the 11800 block of Rockville Pike, when they came upon the men having a dispute.

She said that the off-duty deputy stood in front of the Camaro with his gun drawn and that he ordered the young man out of the car.

She said the deputy marshal shouted, "Get out of the car, or I'm going to shoot you again." He also said, "that's all the ID you're going to see," she added.

The deputy then threatened to shoot if the young man moved his car, Hull said.

"Then I watched the Camaro move around" the deputy, she said, and "I heard pop, pop, pop." She said the car jumped the sidewalk and crashed into the building.

"I feel it's so wrong for him to shoot this kid," she said. "I can't believe he shot him. I heard people say they had an altercation. How does that give him the right to shoot him?"

Fitzgerald said the incident is under investigation.

Attempts to get comment from the U.S. Marshals Service were unsuccessful. The deputy was treated at a hospital for minor injuries, officials said.

The names of the officer and the other driver were not immediately released.

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You know, I think this Cop is nailed nailed to the wall. There were witnesses, so he can't say "OMGLOL, he was reaching for a gun!"

[Glocksman]

It's looking like murder to me:

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Road Rage Victim Was Shot From Behind
U.S. Deputy Argued With Driver Before Rockville Killing

By Fredrick Kunkle and Elizabeth Williamson
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, October 30, 2004; Page A01


An off-duty deputy U.S. marshal embroiled in an apparent road rage confrontation along Rockville Pike on Thursday night fired repeatedly into the rear window of his adversary's car, killing the man as he sat behind the wheel, according to police and witnesses.


Numerous witnesses to the death of Ryan T. Stowers, 20, at the Mid-Pike Plaza in Rockville shortly before 8:30 p.m. were being interviewed by Montgomery County police yesterday. Authorities said no decision had been made on whether charges would be filed against Arthur L. Lloyd, 53, a 28-year veteran of the U.S. Marshals Service assigned to U.S. District Court in Washington.


"The rear window was shattered out," said Capt. John Fitzgerald, a police spokesman, who said investigators had begun to talk with at least 40 witnesses. "With that many witnesses, there ought to be a very clear picture of what went down."


Although Fitzgerald said Stowers may have driven toward the federal agent in the plaza parking lot, three people who said they witnessed the shooting told The Washington Post that Lloyd was standing with his gun drawn and opened fire after Stowers drove past him.


David Sacks, a spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service, said the federal agency will decide Monday whether Lloyd, who was not at work yesterday, would be placed on leave during the investigation by Montgomery police.


"We will wait with everyone else for the facts of the case to become known," Sacks said. "Regarding what happened, we cannot comment until the investigation is complete."


Lloyd could not be located to comment.


Stowers, of Redding, Calif., enlisted in the Navy and had moved to the area on Navy business. A Navy spokesman yesterday would not provide any information about him.


The confrontation began in the thick evening traffic on Rockville Pike, a four-lane artery known for its routine congestion, and played out in the large, well-lighted Mid-Pike Plaza parking lot, about six miles north of the District line.


The following account of the incident was drawn from preliminary police reports, law enforcement sources and interviews with witnesses.


The altercation was sparked by a traffic incident on Rockville Pike and continued after Stowers and Lloyd turned into the shopping center lot. It is unclear whether the vehicles collided or the two drivers merely had a traffic argument.


Stowers pulled his red Chevrolet Camaro into the lot, not far from the A.C. Moore craft store, behind the dark-colored sport-utility vehicle that Lloyd was driving, with his wife and several children as passengers.


A shouting match turned into a fistfight, and Lloyd suffered a broken thumb, according to one source familiar with the investigation who declined to be identified because the investigation is not complete.


Cindy Nachman-Senders of Potomac said she heard shouting in the crowded parking lot as she strapped her 5-year-old son into his booster seat. She turned to see two men in a confrontation beside their stopped vehicles.


She said Stowers got into his car and was on his cell phone. She said Lloyd started yelling: "Give me the cell phone! I'm going to call 911!"


A witness who said he was driving in the opposite direction in his Toyota Corolla at that point said he saw a man who was wearing street clothes holding a semiautomatic handgun and a badge standing by the Camaro's right front fender. The driver's window was down, he said.


"I noticed that the officer was standing in front of the Camaro, pointing his gun and saying, 'Get out of the car, or I'm going to shoot you!' He was yelling it very loudly," said the Toyota driver. He spoke on the condition that his name not be used because he was afraid of getting in trouble with the police. He said the man with the gun "just kept yelling. He was saying, 'You just hit a federal officer. Watch what's going to happen to you in the morning if you leave.' "


Stowers refused to get out of the car, the Toyota driver said. "The young man in the car was yelling: 'I need a picture ID. Show me a picture ID. I don't believe you,' " he said.


Another person who said she witnessed the incident, Eugenia Hull of Silver Spring, also said she heard Lloyd order Stowers to "get out of the car." She said Lloyd responded to the request for additional identification by saying, "That's all the ID you're going to get."


Witnesses agree that Stowers attempted to drive away, although there is not agreement on whether he moved in reverse or tried to swerve around Lloyd.


Fitzgerald, the police spokesman, said preliminary interviews indicated that Stowers "drove away in the direction of the deputy marshal . . . but we'll accept any fact pattern that changes this." He said investigators "would have to determine where [Lloyd] was and how far away from the car he was" when the shots were fired.


As Nachman-Senders saw it, Stowers reversed the Camaro, gunned the engine and then went around the SUV, not at it. "He was trying to leave the scene, not hit the officer," she said.


Hull described Stowers as trying to "move around" Lloyd when she heard the shots.


The Toyota driver said he had just eased his own car by the confrontation when the Camaro backed up and then lurched forward. He said he was about eight feet away when he heard the first of three shots, and he said that Lloyd fired into the Camaro from the rear.


"He shot the back of the car," the driver said. "He shot the guy in the back, pretty much."


Nachman-Senders said she turned back to Lloyd, who stood with the gun at his side. Then she heard a loud crash. She turned toward the noise and saw that the Camaro had hit a wall.


"I'm just in shock and disbelief. I can't believe there's a kid who was here one minute and then not the next," she said. "I can't believe that an argument could escalate this way so quickly. . . . How responsible was it for him to shoot like that in the middle of a busy parking lot?"

[salm]

David Sacks, a spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service, said the federal agency will decide Monday whether Lloyd, who was not at work yesterday, would be placed on leave during the investigation by Montgomery police.

now if the lunatic in question wasn´t a cop, would that even be a question?
it´s so damn annoying how cops get special treatment.

[Kamakazie Sith]

David Sacks, a spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service, said the federal agency will decide Monday whether Lloyd, who was not at work yesterday, would be placed on leave during the investigation by Montgomery police.

now if the lunatic in question wasn´t a cop, would that even be a question?
it´s so damn annoying how cops get special treatment.

Yes, it is called a criminal investigation. Which is the same thing that this Deputy will go through and will probably be arrested and convicted.

[Montcalm]

This guy should be expelled from the forces and treated like the criminal he is,btw they should start screening every cops they have and the potential recruit in the forces,emotionaly unstable guys should not be cops.

[Perinquus]

This guy should be expelled from the forces and treated like the criminal he is,btw they should start screening every cops they have and the potential recruit in the forces,emotionaly unstable guys should not be cops.

Uhh... they do that already. I had to take a psych eval and a polygraph test, as well as undergo an extensive background investigation to get my job. Unfortunately, no system is perfect, and occasionally someone who is unfit manages to slip through the screening process.

[Kamakazie Sith]

Uhh... they do that already. I had to take a psych eval and a polygraph test, as well as undergo an extensive background investigation to get my job. Unfortunately, no system is perfect, and occasionally someone who is unfit manages to slip through the screening process.

I had to undergo an extensive background investigation just to get into the police academy. As for eventually being hired on I'll also have to take a pysch evanl and polygraph test.

[MKSheppard]

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On Brink of Career, Seaman Killed
Victim of Traffic Dispute Was Eager to Begin Navy Life

By Susan Kinzie and Amit R. Paley
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, October 31, 2004; Page C01

Ryan T. Stowers, a Navy seaman, flew to Maryland from California on Wednesday, hoping to get on with his life.

He had tried community college and had thought about joining the Air Force. Instead, he joined the Navy in March. Then, after boot camp, he injured a knee and underwent surgery in September at National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda. After recuperating in California, he returned to Bethesda last week, getting ready to return to duty.

Ryan T. Stowers was in an "altercation" on Rockville Pike, police said.

"He was in such a hurry to get out there," said his mother, Tricia Stowers, in a telephone interview from her home in Redding, Calif. He wanted to settle into Navy life.

But that fell apart in a few moments Thursday night.

Stowers, 20, was driving on Rockville Pike shortly before 8:30 p.m. when he and another motorist, Arthur L. Lloyd, 53, a deputy U.S. marshal, had an "altercation" in traffic, according to Montgomery County police. The two pulled into the parking lot of Mid-Pike Plaza in Rockville, where their shouting match turned into a fistfight, police said.

Witnesses said Stowers got back in his car and was attempting to drive away when Lloyd fired repeatedly at the vehicle, killing Stowers. Police said they were interviewing witnesses yesterday and had not decided whether to file charges against Lloyd.

Lloyd, a deputy for 28 years, could not be located for comment yesterday. His wife, Wanda Lloyd, referred questions to her husband's attorney, Lawrence Berger, who declined to comment on the case.

"The guy shot my son in the back," Todd Stowers said in a telephone interview from California. He said he is worried that the incident will not be fully investigated because it involves a federal law enforcement officer. "This is my 20-year-old kid," the father said.

Ryan Stowers grew up playing baseball, soccer and basketball and swimming, his mother said. He and his younger brother, Matt Stowers, were best friends, always together, said Tricia Stowers.

While his sister, Tristan Stowers, knew she wanted to be a teacher, and the family expects Matt Stowers, a recent high school graduate, to become a businessman, Ryan Stowers was still figuring out where his life was going, his mother said.

Tall and thin, Stowers played shortstop for his high school baseball team and point guard for the basketball team. His main interest was sports, his mother said.

And "every time I turned around," Tricia Stowers said, "he was on the phone with some girl."

Stowers went to community college and worked at a video store. He considered joining the Air Force to become a military police officer but decided that would take too long, his mother said. So he enlisted in the Navy and signed up for a cooking program.

Stowers joined the Navy on March 1, according to Lt. Cmdr. Chito Peppler, a spokesman for National Naval Medical Center. After basic training, Stowers was assigned to the USS Detroit, a combat support ship based in New Jersey. But he never went to sea. After he hurt his knee playing basketball, he was sent to Bethesda for surgery.

He told his family that in boot camp he went to religious services -- and they teased him, telling him he went to church just to get some sleep in a place where no one was yelling at him. But, his mother said, "I think he was kind of looking for something there, too, not quite knowing what it was yet."

Stowers called home every day and worried that his sister's baby daughter would not remember him when he came back.

Ryan T. Stowers was in an "altercation" on Rockville Pike, police said.

He and his girlfriend, a Maryland college sophomore, sent his 17-month-old niece a rubber duck wearing a Navy hat.

In Maryland, where he drove a 1997 Chevrolet Camaro, he got a ticket for speeding and one for driving the wrong way on a one-way street. After his surgery at the end of September, he returned to Redding for a month. After sailors have medical treatment at the hospital, they usually are assigned to work there for a time.

Stowers was to have begun working there the morning after he died, his mother said.

His sister wrote in an e-mail message that she hopes that witnesses to the shooting will help police learn the truth about what happened to her brother.

"He was just looking for his place," his mother said.

Staff writer Clarence Williams and staff researcher Bobbye Pratt contributed to this report.

[Vertigo1]

I hope they hang that son of a bitch up by his balls. There was absolutely no excuse for what that asshole did. None at all.

[CmdrWilkens]

Well that's about as stupid and shitty as they come.