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By
Andrew Michaels
- January 16, 2024
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A Baltimore City Police officer will serve no jail time but faces probation after accepting a plea agreement on Jan. 16 for striking and killing a man with his police cruiser while reporting to a crime scene.
On June 21, 2022, Alexis Acosta was driving to a reported stabbing when he hit 58-year-old Terry Harrell with his police cruiser at the intersection of East Biddle Street and North Milton Avenue. Harrell died from his injuries two days later.
Acosta, 29, and his defense attorney, Chaz Ball, appeared before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Yvette M. Bryant on Tuesday when the defendant pleaded guilty to criminally negligent vehicular manslaughter for a suspended three-year sentence and two years of probation. The prosecution was unopposed to the defense filing for a modified sentence following Acosta’s completion of his probation.
The prosecutor’s plea offer on Tuesday was reduced from a prior plea offered to Acosta in September 2023. Baltimore Witness previously reported Acosta was offered a plea of an unsuspended three years for criminally negligent vehicular manslaughter.