A man charged this week with fatally shooting a police officer in her Maryland home nearly 30 years ago was the officer’s live-in boyfriend and had blamed her 1995 killing on a burglary, police officials said Wednesday.
Amir Jalil Ali, who was arrested Tuesday on a first-degree murder charge, initially was charged in 1995 with killing 24-year-old Denna Fredericka Campbell, an officer for the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C. But the charges against him were dropped two months later by prosecutors in Maryland’s Montgomery County.
Montgomery County State’s Attorney John McCarthy said he can’t explain why the charges were dropped in 1995, when his office was led by a predecessor.
“I was not privy to, nor do I know, what the conversation was regarding why the charges were dropped at that point in time,” McCarthy told reporters at a news conference.
Campbell, a four-year MPD veteran, was shot five times in her Silver Spring, Maryland, apartment. Her department-issued handgun was missing and hasn’t been found.
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An autopsy revealed Campbell also had defensive wounds, indicating she fought her assailant, CBS affiliate WUSA-TV reported. Court documents say when police asked for Ali’s clothes for evidence, they noticed he had scratches on his back, and a large rip in his T-shirt, the station reported.
“While this arrest won’t erase the pain of losing Denna, we hope that it brings some resolution and sense of peace to everyone involved,” Montgomery County Police Chief Marc Yamada said.
Ali, 62, of Laurel, Maryland, was known as Kenneth Burnell Wonsom at the time of the killing. He legally changed his name in 2021, police said.
Ali told investigators that he had left their apartment after 3 a.m. on Sept. 16, 1995, to go to a store and found her body when he returned home, a police report says. Ali called 911 to report a burglary and said his girlfriend had been shot, according to the report.
Officers who worked with Campbell told police detectives that she was afraid of her boyfriend and had been sleeping with her department-issued weapon under her pillow, the report says. Campbell said she planned to leave Ali, adding, “If I don’t show up for work Saturday, you’ll know he killed me and buried me somewhere,” one of those colleagues told investigators.
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