In the spring of 1997, a veteran Baltimore police lieutenant, just a month shy of his 29th anniversary with the department, responded to a routine call that would tragically be his last. Lieutenant Owen E. Sweeney, Jr., a 47-year-old male, was known for his preference for street work over paperwork, a quality that led him to join his officers at a residence in Northeast Baltimore on that fateful afternoon. He was attempting to serve a mental health petition.
At the scene, Sweeney tried to
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