A man who police describe as a suspect in a “possible carjacking” was killed after the vehicle he was driving crashed into a dump truck Thursday in Waldorf, Maryland.
Officers from the Charles County Sheriff鈥檚 Office responded to the 11900 block of Acton Lane in Waldorf on Thursday around 2 p.m. for the report of a man “beating and choking a woman and a possible carjacking in progress.”
The sheriff’s office said a patrol officer found an injured woman on the ground and a male suspect speeding away in her vehicle after what eyewitnesses called a “random attack.”
Officers pursued the vehicle as it sped south on Mattawoman Beantown Road, where the driver lost control of the vehicle, crashing into a dump truck near Poplar Hill Road.
The suspect was pronounced dead at the scene. The dump truck driver was treated for non-life-threatening injuries and the woman who was earlier assaulted was transported to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Maryland’s Office of the Attorney General’s Independent Investigations Division and the Maryland State Police were notified and promptly dispatched to the scene to spearhead the ongoing investigation, .
Anyone with additional information is being asked to contact Maryland’s Office of the Attorney General鈥檚 Independent Investigations Division at 410-576-7070.
A map of where the deadly crash occurred is below.
