FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contacts:
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Phone: 410-576-7009
BALTIMORE, MD (March 24, 2025) – Today, Attorney General Anthony G. Brown
announced his decision not to seek charges in the May 30, 2024 fatal officer-involved shooting
in Montgomery County, Maryland.
On Wednesday, May 29, 2024, at approximately 11:45 p.m., officers with the Montgomery
County Police Department responded to a residence in the 3300 block of Hampton Point Drive,
in the Fairland neighborhood of Silver Spring, Maryland, for a domestic incident. The 911 caller
reported that his brother, the decedent, Bishop Jones-Daniel, and mother were inside, and his
brother was armed with a handgun. On Thursday, May 30, 2024, at approximately 2:05 a.m.,
after several hours of unsuccessful telephone negotiations, tactical officers entered the residence
and encountered Jones-Daniel holding a handgun. Officer Cochran fired his service weapon
multiple times, striking Jones-Daniel. Jones-Daniel was treated at the scene, and then transported
to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The Attorney General’s Independent Investigations Division (IID) began investigating the fatal officer-involved shooting on Thursday, May 30, 2024, and concluded its investigation on Tuesday, March 18, 2025. After completing its investigation and evaluating all the available evidence, the Office of the Attorney General has determined that the officer involved in the fatal officer-involved shooting did not commit a crime under Maryland law. Accordingly, the Attorney General has declined to prosecute the officer in this case.
A copy of the IID’s detailed investigative findings and analysis of relevant issues can be found
in its declination report.
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