In the early afternoon of March 11, 2015, a traffic stop on a rural road in Elkton, Maryland, turned fatal for 37-year-old Terry Garnett Jr., a Black male resident of the area. The events that unfolded on Augustine Herman Highway would leave Garnett dead from a gunshot wound and spark a state-level investigation into the actions of the Cecil County Sheriff's deputy involved.
The incident began when Deputy First Class Joseph Costa attempted to pull over the Mercury Mountaineer that Garnett
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