Officers Identified in Fatal Shooting at Standoff in Hyattsville

Prince George's County police yesterday identified the four officers who shot and killed an armed man during a standoff in Hyattsville.

Two of the officers, Cpl. Troy Wallace and Cpl. Louis Williams, are 10-year veterans, and the others, Cpl. Delvon Montue and Cpl. Thomas Hammill, each have been with the department for 14 years.

The four officers, two of whom have been accused of using excessive force in the past, were placed on routine suspension pending the outcome of an internal investigation. Each officer is assigned to the special-operations division, police said.

The officers went to Brook T. Genet's apartment in the 3400 block of Toledo Terrace in Hyattsville on Tuesday after receiving a 911 call of gunshots fired. Genet had barricaded himself inside the apartment after police said he fired at a man who had come to pick up keys to a rental car. Police said he later fired at responding officers.

After seven hours of not responding to commands to leave his apartment, Genet was shot while still armed after climbing through a broken window in an attempt to escape, police said.

Attempts to reach the four officers yesterday were unsuccessful.

In 2005, a civil lawsuit claimed that Williams stormed into a man's home without justification, roughed him up without provocation and unjustly arrested. A judge dismissed the criminal charges against the man who sued Williams.

In 2000, a grand jury declined to indict Wallace and another officer in the beating of an unarmed man who died. Clarence E. Stewart, 52, died shortly after he was arrested for allegedly spitting in an officer's face during a confrontation outside a Largo shopping center.

Then-State's Attorney Jack B. Johnson said the two officers had handcuffed Stewart and took him to an office inside a Target store, where shoppers saw him bound by his ankles and bleeding from the head. As officers laid him facedown on the floor, he lost consciousness and was pronounced dead an hour later.