Espina, Manuel de Jesus, 43

(Updated 2 Mar 2011, Map)

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Manuel de Jesus Espina, 43 (8.085).

• Date: 16 Aug 2008, 3:52 pm
• Location: 14th Avenue, 8000 block, 20783 (462).
  
• (Inside the Beltway, more than 2 miles from DC, -76.984205 38.989411)
• (There were at least nine other homicides within a half mile during 2007.)
• Council District 2 (Campos).
• Legislative District 47 (Harrington, J. Ivey, Niemann, Ramirez).
• Shot by off-duty police office; the seventh police-involved killing of the year
• Victim's address: 14th Avenue, 8000 block, 20783 (462).
  
• (Inside the Beltway, more than 2 miles from DC, -76.984205 38.989411)
• Council District 2 (Campos).
• Legislative District 47 (Harrington, J. Ivey, Niemann, Ramirez).
• Sources:
• Police, 17 Aug 2008 (Pacheo).
• 19 Aug 2008 (Pacheo; "PGPD Hosts Community Meeting . . .").
• Annapolis Capital, 17 Aug 2008 (AP).
  
• Examiner, 16 Aug 2008 (AP, nbc4.com).
  
• Gazette, 18 Aug 2008 (Noble).
• 21 Aug 2008 (Noble).
• Post, 17 Aug 2008 (Wan & Weil).
• 18 Aug 2008 (Kinzie, victim & officer identified).
• 19 Aug 2008 (Castaneda & Hohmann; "Witnesses dispute police account . . .")
• 20 Aug 2008 (Hohmann).
• 27 Aug 2008 (Castaneda).
  
• 21 Oct 2008  (Castaneda, "Charges Dropped Against Man In Confrontation With Officer").
• Sun, 17 Aug 2008 (AP).
• PG-Politics, 21 Aug 2008, 27 Aug 2008
  
• Times, 18 Aug 2008.
• myfoxdc.com, 19 Aug 2008
• nbc4.com, 16 Apr 2008.
• 19 Apr 2008
  
• news8.net, 16 Aug 2008.
• wjla.com, 21 Aug 2008 ("Vigil goers look for answers . . .").
  
• wtopnews.com, 17 Aug 2008 (AP, nbc4.com).
• Officer involved:
• Steven Jackson
• Source: Police, 17 Aug 2008 (Pacheo). 
• Update (civil trial against officer Jackson);
• Gazette, 17 Feb 2011 (Noble).

  Civil trial begins for Langley Park man killed by Prince George's police officer; Family suing for $20 million; argues 2008 fatal shooting at apartment was unjustified

• Post, 17 Feb 2011 (Castaneda).

  A Prince George's County police officer pepper-sprayed an unresisting man, hit him with his fists and his metal police baton, threw him down a flight of stairs, then fatally shot him, according to witnesses who testified Thursday at a civil trial against the officer. Moments later, the officer swore at the victim's crying wife, according to testimony and a 911 recording. [Full report]

• Post, 27 Feb 2011 (Castaneda).

  Starkly different accounts in man's fatal shooting by Prince George's officer

• Post, 1 Mar 2011 (Castaneda).

  Son testifies in officer's shooting of father