Rice called for a police wagon and Gray was placed in it, without a seatbelt but handcuffed. Goodson drove the van away, and then he and the three officers met up nearby, where they filled out paperwork, replaced his handcuffs with flex cuffs, and shackled his legs. This stop is where the fateful choices were made that would kill Gray. He was placed into the van headfirst, lying on his stomach with his legs and hands both restrained. Again, he was not buckled into a seat, despite a BPD order to secure all prisoners with seat belts.

Goodson drove off toward central booking, but stopped shortly thereafter to check on Gray. He looked into the back of the van, but neither offered medical help nor buckled the young man. Several blocks later, Goodson stopped again to check Gray’s status and requested backup. William Porter arrived, and the two men checked on Gray. He requested medical help and said he couldn’t breathe. Porter asked him if he needed a medic, and Gray “indicated yes at least twice,” according to Mosby. But they did not call a medic. Instead, they placed him on the bench, but again did not buckle his seat belt.

Rather than proceed to central booking, Goodson diverted to the site of a nearby arrest and picked up another prisoner. At that stop, Goodson, Porter, and Alicia White checked on Gray, found him unresponsive, and did nothing. Goodson finally headed to the Western District police station. Mosby noted that Goodson broke department rules by failing to restrain Gray with a seat belt on each of these five occasions.

By the time Gray arrived at the station, he was no longer breathing, and a medic found him to be in cardiac arrest. He was rushed to the University of Maryland’s shock trauma center, and he died at the hospital a week later.

Mosby took a moment during her press conference to praise “the brave men and women, both in uniform and out, who have stepped up Monday night to protect our communities from those who wish to destroy it.” Mentioning that her family has a long background in law enforcement and that both of her parents were officers, she said the charges did not reflect on the entire department. But Mosby made several pointed comments about the police.

Repeatedly stressing the independence of her investigation and her office from the police department, she noted that while she appreciated the information BPD delivered to her Thursday, “what we received from the police department yesterday we already had.” She also called on everyone involved to “respect due process” and avoid leaking information about the case to the press. On Wednesday night, The Washington Post reported, based on a police source, that the other prisoner in the van said Gray had been trying to hurt himself. That man later came forward to dispute the report. Generally, however, police had been extremely tight-lipped about the investigation and what was known. Officials did not release the results of the BPD investigation Thursday, but they strongly implied that some of the officers involved had hidden a fourth van stop from investigators.