Amy Caprio was a police officer with the Baltimore County Police Department who had served with the department for almost four years until she was killed in the line of duty on Monday, May 21, 2018.

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Amy Caprio joined the Baltimore County Police Department in July 2014, according to a database of county employees.

She graduated with the department’s 140th recruit class in December 2014 and was initially assigned to the Essex, Maryland precinct.

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In December and January 2017 Amy Caprio helped solve a series of package thefts in Baltimore County, Maryland.

The investigation began when Caprio was assigned to handle a report of a stolen package in Nottingham, Maryland and then a report of empty boxes tossed in bushes along a roadside in Parkville, Maryland.

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Amy Caprio gathered evidence from security cameras, interviewed witnesses, tracked a vehicle and compared notes with other officers investigating package thefts in the area.

She ended up linking two suspects to dozens of stolen package cases in the Parkville, White Marsh, Dundalk, Towson, Cockeysville and Essex precincts.

When officers found the suspects’ hotel room, it was filled with stolen goods, including a brightly colored handmade quilt with “a heartfelt inscription” that a woman had shipped to her granddaughter.

The quilt eventually was returned to the family.

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For her work solving the case, Amy Caprio was named officer of the month for the Parkville precinct for December 2017.

The police department praised Caprio for “the lengthy investigation and hard work that Officer Caprio invested into what she could have simply considered a trash complaint.”

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On Monday, May 21, 2018 Amy Caprio was allegedly killed by 16-year-old Dawnta Harris while responding to a burglary call in Nottingham, Maryland.

Dawnta Harris has been charged with murder as an adult and is being held at an adult detention facility.

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Amy Caprio had responded to a report of a suspicious vehicle, a black Jeep Wrangler, at about 2 p.m. Monday at 3 Linwen Way in Perry Hall.

A 9-1-1 caller said suspects had broken into a home and the first arriving officer was on the ground after confronting the driver of the Jeep.

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The Jeep was later found abandoned nearby, in the 9500 block of Dawnvale Road in Nottingham, and officers located Harris about a block away, court documents said.

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Prosecutors said Harris had the keys to the Jeep in his pocket when police questioned him, and when they left, he tried to hide them under the seat.

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During an interview at police headquarters, Harris admitted he was sitting in the driver seat while the three other suspects committed a burglary, according to charging documents.

He told officers he saw Caprio drive up the block, when she got out of her car and demanded that he get out of the Jeep, the documents allege.

Instead, he “drove at the officer,” the documents said.

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Caprio was taken to MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center on Monday, May 21, 2018 with traumatic injuries and was pronounced dead at about 2:50 p.m. ^[3]