BALTIMORE, MD — Testimony in the racketeering trial for two Baltimore Police officers has allegedly implicated Detective Sean Suiter, killed the day before he was to provide grand jury testimony related to the federal case. Seven members of the Baltimore Police Department's now-disbanded gun trace task force were indicted on federal racketeering charges in March 2017.

Two have pleaded not guilty and are undergoing a trial: Detective Daniel Thomas Hersl and Detective Marcus Roosevelt Taylor. On the stand Monday, one of those who pleaded guilty, Detective Momodu Bondeva Kenton Gondo, testified that Suiter was among a handful of officers who took money from citizens between 2008 and 2009, according to WBAL.

Gondo testified that three other officers who were not among those indicted, including a current Baltimore County Police officer, also participated in the robberies, divvying up money that they seized, WBAL reported; county police issued a statement to the news station that the FBI would be contacted in regards to the allegation. Suiter, 43, was shot in the head with his service weapon on Nov. 15, 2017, while investigating a triple homicide from 2016, and his killer remains at large. Police said there were signs of a struggle.



Suiter was to testify before a grand jury in connection with the federal racketeering case the day after he was shot. The detective died on Nov. 16, 2017, from a gunshot wound to the head. His funeral drew police from around the region, and the governor proclaimed him a "hero." The uncle who raised Suiter told The Baltimore Sun that the slain detective "has never done anything wrong in his life" and "people will say anything..."

It was known that the detective had worked with members of the gun trace task force earlier in his career.

The indictment of Sgt. Wayne Jenkins released last year stated that on April 28, 2010, Jenkins was driving an unmarked police car with another officer when he engaged in a vehicle pursuit with a second unmarked car, which former police commissioner Kevin Davis confirmed was driven by Suiter.