Man shot in White Marsh by Baltimore County detective remains in critical condition

A man who was shot by a Baltimore County detective in White Marsh on Tuesday is still in critical condition, the Maryland Office of the Attorney General said.

The office’s Independent Investigations Division — which scrutinizes all police incidents resulting in the death or serious injury of a citizen — is investigating the shooting, according to a Thursday statement.

The attorney general’s office identified J. Trenary, a 16-year officer, as the detective who shot the unnamed man in the upper body. The man was taken to a local hospital with “life-threatening injuries,” the statement said.

Baltimore County salary records from this fiscal year list a police officer first class named Jonathan Trenary, first hired in 2006.

Jonathan Trenary is the only officer in county salary records with the same first initial and last name as “J. Trenary.”

The man who was shot had “multiple outstanding warrants” and was being surveilled early Tuesday morning by members of the police department’s Criminal Apprehension Support Team, according to the attorney general’s office. At the time, he was in a Kia SUV with a female passenger at a Royal Farms in the the 10700 block of Pulaski Highway.

Detectives attempted to block in the SUV about 6:10 a.m. After they got out of their vehicles to make an arrest, the man drove off and hit an unmarked police car, according to the attorney general’s office.

At that point Trenary fired, hitting the man, the attorney general’s office said. The SUV continued moving through a parking lot before crashing into another vehicle, according to the attorney general’s office.

Detectives in the Criminal Apprehension Support Team do not wear body-worn cameras and their vehicles do not have dashboard cameras, the attorney general’s office said.

In April 2022, an officer identified as J. Trenary was among four Criminal Apprehension Support Team detectives who shot and injured 19-year-old Shane Radomski in his vehicle during a chaotic scene in Dundalk as police attempted to arrest another person.

Video of the shooting — recorded on a dashboard camera in a nearby car and obtained by The Baltimore Sun — showed Radomski’s black sedan collide with an unmarked police cruiser before reversing as if to leave. Radomski was seriously wounded as officers fired through the windshield, according to The Sun.

Baltimore County State’s Attorney Scott Shellenberger punted the case to a grand jury, which in May 2022 decided the shooting was justified. Shellenberger and police said last year that Radomski would be charged — online court records show the county has not done so.

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