Detective in teen’s shooting identified
17-year-old wounded in Shipley Hill listed as stable as investigation continues
The Baltimore Police Department on Monday identified the detective who shot and wounded a 17-year-old in Shipley Hill as Cedric Elleby.
The teen, who was taken to the hospital after the shooting Thursday, is now in stable condition, Baltimore Police said in a news release. The department’s Special Investigations Response Team is still investigating, the release said.
In a separate statement, police said they would release body-worn camera footage of the shooting Tuesday afternoon.
Elleby, according to the department, has been a Baltimore Police officer since June 2019. Police said last week that the detective was a member of a District Action Team, a specialized police unit.
An online city salary database lists his fiscal year 2021-22 base salary as $69,887. His gross pay that year, the database shows, was $90,107.98.
Baltimore Police said in the Monday release that officers attempted to stop someone they believed was concealing a firearm. That person, the 17-year-old, fled, and at least one officer pursued him on foot. During that chase, the teen “produced a firearm,” police said, and did not follow commands from the officer to drop the weapon.
Then, as the pursuit reached the 300 block of South Catherine Street, the release said, the “officer discharged his service weapon, striking the 17-year-old.”
Witnesses who spoke with The Baltimore Sun after the shooting said they didn’t see the teen holding a gun when he was running. One witness, Devon Smith, said he didn’t hear police tell the teen to drop the weapon.
with the timeline of where we are.”
Administration officials, however, said the talks among staff throughout the weekend had been productive after Biden and the leaders — McCarthy of California, House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky — ended their first meeting May 9 without a breakthrough.
Staff is said to be narrowing on four areas of potential agreement that could begin to shape a budget deal that would unlock a separate vote to lift the nation’s borrowing capacity.
They are discussing clawing back untapped COVID-19 money, future spending caps, permitting reforms to ease energy development and bolstered work requirements on recipients of government aid, those familiar with the discussions said.
He has said he will not accept anything that takes away people’s health care coverage.
“I voted for tougher aid programs that’s in the law now, but for Medicaid it’s a different story,” he said. “And so I’m waiting to hear what their exact proposal is.”
But at least publicly, there was little indication that either the White House or House Republicans had budged from their initial positions.
Biden has called on lawmakers to lift the debt limit without preconditions, warning that the nation’s borrowing authority should not be used to impose deep spending cuts and other conservative policy demands.
Republicans led by McCarthy want Biden to accept their proposal to roll back spending, cap future outlays and other policy changes in the package passed last month by House Republicans.
An increase in the debt limit would not authorize new federal spending. It would only allow for borrowing to pay for what Congress has already approved.
The Treasury Department has said the government could exhaust the ability to pay its bills as early as June 1.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office gave a similar warning Friday, saying there was a “significant risk” of default sometime in the first two weeks of next month.
But federal estimates still remain in flux. The CBO noted Friday that if the cash flow at the Treasury and the “extraordinary measures” that the department is now using can continue to pay for bills through June 15, the government can probably finance its operations through the end of July.
That’s because the expected tax revenues that will come in mid-June and other measures will give the federal government enough cash for at least a few more weeks.
“Ultimately the stakes are, the United States has never defaulted on its debt,” Wally Adeyemo, the deputy treasury secretary, said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday. “And we can’t.”
And Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, told ABC’s “This Week”: “I think defaulting is not the right path to go down. So I am an eternal optimist.’’
He added, “this is always a game we play, every Congress, you know, in daring each other to jump off the cliff. It’s a dangerous game.”
Aides said talks had continued throughout the weekend.
But at least publicly, there was little indication that either the White House or House Republicans had budged from their initial positions.
Biden has called on lawmakers to lift the debt limit without preconditions, warning that the nation’s borrowing authority should not be used to impose deep spending cuts and other conservative policy demands.
Republicans led by McCarthy want Biden to accept their proposal to roll back spending, cap future outlays and other policy changes in the package passed last month by House Republicans.