A Baltimore County police officer was killed in a confrontation Monday as she responded to an afternoon call in Perry Hall, setting off an hours-long manhunt for suspects as police searched densely populated suburban neighborhoods. 
 
 Update: Court records show 16-year-old Dawnta Anthony Harris has been charged in Officer Amy Caprio's death. » 
 
 The officer’s death prompted outcry throughout the state, and the search left nearly 2,000 students stranded in their schools well into the evening as police looked for the suspects, considered armed and dangerous. Authorities continued to search for the suspects Monday night but did not say how many there were. 
 
 Police would not confirm what types of injuries were suffered by the officer, a four-year veteran assigned to the Parkville precinct. A witness saw the officer, whose name has not been released, get hit by a vehicle. 
 
 Details remained unclear Monday night. Police Chief Terrence B. Sheridan said the officer was responding to a call for a possible burglary involving four suspects. However, a police spokesman said the call was for a report of a suspicious vehicle. 
 
 Investigators will review body camera footage to determine what happened, Sheridan said. 
 
 “This is a bad time in the United States for law enforcement,” Sheridan said at a news conference at MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, where the officer died Monday afternoon. 
 
 Police were “working grids” in the area as they searched for the suspects, Sheridan said. 
 
 “It’s a densely populated area with a lot of stream valleys and places where people can hide,” said County Councilman David Marks, a Perry Hall Republican who lives nearby. “My heart just goes out to the family of this police officer who has been taken from us.” 
 
 At about 1 a.m. Tuesday, a section of Belair Road that had been shut down by the manhunt had reopened, and the Maryland State Highway Administration reported that the investigation had ended. Although the search for suspects in the area is ongoing, said Corporal Jim Elliott, spokesman for Baltimore County Police, "they’ve scaled down quite a bit.” 
 
 Police did not release a description of the suspects. They said Monday night that they recovered a Jeep that was involved in the crime. Police would not confirm whether the car had been stolen or how many people were inside it, but believe the car was also involved in an earlier burglary. 
 
 Homicide detectives were working with aviation, canine units, and heat sensing technology to search for the suspects — at least one — along Belair Road as night fell, police spokesman Cpl. Shawn Vinson said. “The dark will not hamper our investigation.” Vinson expressed hope that the officer’s body camera footage could be used to identify the suspects. “We’re going to be investigating this throughout the night, all day tomorrow,” he said. 
 
 Roads in the area were shut down, and residents were told to shelter in place. 
 
 Meanwhile, more than 1,900 students at several schools in the Perry Hall area remained in school for hours after dismissal as the search continued. County school officials informed parents around 7:30 p.m. that they could pick up their children. 
 
 Sheridan said the schools were locked for the safety of the children. 
 
 Baltimore County Public Schools announced in an early-morning tweet that all county schools would open on time Tuesday, with more police than usual present at schools. 
 
 While the officer’s family remained at Medstar Franklin Square, Vinson said, the officer’s body has been taken to the Medical Examiner’s officer for autopsy. He said he could not confirm reports that she had been hit by the Jeep until after the autopsy had been completed and the body camera footage reviewed. 
 
 Vinson could not disclose the victim’s identity but said July would have marked the officer’s fourth anniversary with the department. 
 
 “It’s shocking,” Vinson said of the death. “But reassuring to see how the police family comes together.” He said officers from the area had been coming to the hospital all day to pay their respects. 
 
 The incident began to unfold just before 2 p.m., when police received a call for a suspicious vehicle on Linwen Way, Vinson said. 
 
 The officer who responded was critically injured, he said, but did not describe what happened. She was taken to Franklin Square, where she was pronounced dead at 2:50 p.m., Vinson said. 
 
 A resident of the neighborhood told The Baltimore Sun his son saw the officer struck by a vehicle. 
 
 Tony Kurek, 54, had just walked in the door of his home when his son, Dakota, shouted for him. “ ‘Dad, Dad, a cop just got run over out front,’ ” the father recalled his son saying. 
 
 The officer was lying in the road in front of his house, he said. Dakota told his father he had seen the officer draw her gun on a black Jeep Wrangler and ordered the people inside to get out. 
 
 Instead, the driver sped forward, ramming the officer with the vehicle. She landed about 20 feet away. “She basically landed almost in front of my mailbox,” Kurek said. 
 
 Tony Kurek called 911. He screamed expletives into the phone: “You got a cop laying in the road dying,” he told them. 
 
 Another son, Logan, a volunteer firefighter, began doing CPR. 
 
 Tony Kurek said he “won’t soon forget” the look on the officer’s eyes as his son worked to revive her. “I had a very, very bad feeling that she was going or gone.” 
 
 “She was young. It just breaks your heart,” he said. 
 
 Kurek said glass and one shell casing were found outside, and that his son and neighbors had heard the pop of shots fired. But he didn’t know whether the officer or someone in the car had pulled the trigger. 
 
 The neighborhood remained on lockdown for an hour after the incident, Kurek said. He and neighbors were told not to leave their homes. 
 
 Vinson, the police spokesman, said a home on Linwen Way had damage to a patio door, though police don't yet know whether that was the same home where the call to police was made. 
 
 “We are actively following up several leads,” Vinson said. ||||| Baltimore County Police Department corporal Shawn Vinson speaks at a news conference, Monday, May 21, 2018, at Franklin Square Hospital Center in Rosedale, Md. A Baltimore County Police Department officer... (Associated Press) 
 
 Baltimore County Police Department corporal Shawn Vinson speaks at a news conference, Monday, May 21, 2018, at Franklin Square Hospital Center in Rosedale, Md. A Baltimore County Police Department officer was pronounced dead at the hospital after an altercation while investigating a suspicious vehicle... (Associated Press) 
 
 PERRY HALL, Md. (AP) — A 16-year-old boy has been charged in the slaying of a Baltimore County, Maryland, police officer, and three other suspects are still being sought, authorities said Tuesday. 
 
 Scott Shellenberger, the state's attorney for Baltimore County, told The Associated Press that the teen has been charged with murder as an adult. 
 
 "And police are looking for other suspects as we speak," Shellenberger said by phone. 
 
 The Baltimore County Police and Fire Department tweeted Tuesday that the teen was arrested shortly after the female officer was fatally injured Monday. The police tweet did not explain the delay in announcing the teen's apprehension. The teen's name was not immediately released. Police said he is awaiting a bail hearing. 
 
 The teenage suspect was scheduled to appear before a judge at a Towson courthouse at 1 p.m. Tuesday. 
 
 Meanwhile, police continued scouring a greater Baltimore suburb for three other suspects. 
 
 The enormous manhunt was continuing unabated in the suburban community of Perry Hall, Maryland, where witnesses reported hearing a pop before seeing a Jeep run over the officer Monday afternoon. 
 
 The officer, who wasn't immediately identified, was bleeding badly from significant injuries and was pronounced dead after being rushed to a hospital. Baltimore County Police Cpl. Shawn Vinson said investigators have recovered the suspects' abandoned Jeep, but police declined to confirm whether it was used to injure the officer. 
 
 Relatives of the officer, who would have been on the force four years by July, have been notified. 
 
 Tony Kurek told The Associated Press his adult son was outside in the family's yard Monday afternoon in the northeast Baltimore County community when the son saw the officer with her gun drawn, confronting the occupants of a Jeep. 
 
 "The next thing he heard was a pop, and he saw the Jeep take off and run right over her," said Kurek. The car left skid marks behind, he said, leaving the officer down and bleeding. 
 
 Logan Kurek, who is a volunteer firefighter, said he heard his younger brother "frantically screaming" and ran outside to perform CPR. 
 
 Vinson said the officer went to investigate a call about a suspicious vehicle when she encountered at least one suspect and was "critically injured." He added that the confrontation may have stemmed from a burglary in progress, noting one home on the block had damage to a patio door. 
 
 "What exactly happened, we are not sure yet until an autopsy is performed," Vinson said at a news conference Monday. He said he had no information about whether she had fired her own weapon. 
 
 He added that a homicide investigation has been opened. Officers were searching for suspects "who we believe are armed and dangerous," Police Chief Terrence Sheridan said. 
 
 Events began unfolding Monday afternoon in the leafy neighborhood of single-family homes. It was then that Kurek's neighbor, Dahle Amendt, said he had just settled into his recliner for a rest when he heard a woman's voice outside his house. 
 
 "I heard, 'Get out of the car!' 'Get out of the car!' Get out of the car!' at least three times, and then a pop," Amendt said. 
 
 Amendt said his wife also ran outside and tried to revive the officer. 
 
 "This is a shock. It's a quiet community. It's just so sad," Amendt said. 
 
 Investigators urged residents in a sizable swath of Perry Hall to stay hunkered down inside their homes and lock all doors and windows as officers search the community fringed with woodlands. Three elementary schools were kept on alert status for hours, with students and teachers told to stay in their school buildings as police continued a search for the suspects. By Monday evening, parents were allowed to come to the schools to pick up their youngsters. 
 
 School officials tweeted overnight that all Baltimore County public schools would open on time Tuesday. 
 
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 Rankin reported from Richmond, Virginia. Associated Press writer Denise Lavoie also contributed from Richmond. ||||| BALTIMORE (WJZ) — One suspect was arrested and three others are in custody in the death of a Baltimore County police officer who was killed in Perry Hall Monday afternoon during a traffic stop. 
 
 The officer has also been identified as 29-year-old Amy Caprio — who would have been a four-year veteran of the force in July. 
 
 RELATED: 16-Year-Old Arrested, 3 Others In Custody After Death Of Balt. Co. Officer 
 
 Police said this incident happened in a residential neighborhood near Belair and Klausmier Roads after the officer responded to reports of a suspicious vehicle in the unit-block of Linwen Way. Police now believe the officer stumbled upon a burglary in progress. 
 
 Caprio was injured just after 2 p.m. and was taken to nearby Medstar Franklin Square hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 2:50 p.m. 
 
 Police say they are not yet sure if the officer was shot or hit by a vehicle, and her cause of death will not be determined until an autopsy is performed. 
 
 Officers say they have recovered a black Jeep, believed to have been used by the suspects. 
 
 A patio door in the neighborhood was smashed in, according Cpl. Shawn Vinson of the Baltimore County Police Department. This is what led detectives to believe a burglary occurred. 
 
 Baltimore County Police Chief Terrence Sheridan said that police are looking for suspects they believed are “armed and dangerous.” 
 
 Sheridan said the officer was wearing a body camera at the time of the incident and police are reviewing the footage. 
 
 RELATED: Law Enforcement Across Maryland Offer Support After Baltimore Co. Officer Killed 
 
 Governor Larry Hogan offered his condolences to the Baltimore County Police Department and also offered up the help of the Maryland State Police as police continue to look for the suspects. 
 
 We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of a Baltimore County Police Officer after she was shot in the line of duty today. Our prayers go out to this brave officer's family, @BACOPoliceFire, and the Baltimore County community. — Governor Larry Hogan (@GovLarryHogan) May 21, 2018 
 
 MANHUNT UNDERWAY 
 
 A normally quiet neighborhood with single-family homes is now the center of a massive crime scene. A large police presence can be seen across several locations along Belair Road while police collect evidence and search for at least one armed suspect. 
 
 Perry Hall area residents were being told to shelter in place. 
 
 Residents in the area of Belair Road and Klausmeier Road should shelter in place due to ongoing #BCoPD incident. Motorists should avoid Belair Road from Forge Road to Ebenezer Road. #BCoPD is searching for an armed suspect. More info when available. ^NL — BACO Public Safety (@BACOPoliceFire) May 21, 2018 
 
 Police were not allowing residents to enter the neighborhoods where officers are conducting the search. Belair Road was shutdown from Baker to Ebenezer Roads, so motorists were asked to avoid the area and expect delays. Motorists were being rerouted to Ebenezer, Baker and Honeygo Boulevard. Belair Road has since reopened. 
 
 Schools near the scene of the shooting were on alert and delayed dismissal, per county officials. Parents were told not to respond to the schools, but instead to call the school administrators for more information. Schools said the students were safe inside the school. 
 
 Perry Hall, Seven Oaks, Gunpowder elementary schools were allowed to leave as of 7:37 p.m. Monday night, per Baltimore County Public Schools. 
 
 County officials said to ensure the safety of students, buses will not be taking students home. Parents must pick up their students and show identification. 
 
 Evening and after school activities at Perry Hall Middle and Perry Hall High were cancelled. 
 
 St. Joseph’s Elementary off Belair Road was also on lockdown, per the diocese, but has allowed students go home. 
 
 Although Carney Elementary was also temporarily on alert, those students were dismissed as of 5:55 p.m. Students were either sent home by bus or parent pick up. 
 
 UPDATE: Students at Carney Elementary School are being sent home by bus or being picked up by parents. Perry Hall Elementary, Seven Oaks Elementary, and Gunpowder Elementary are still on alert status. Students and staff there are safe and supervised by staff. — Baltimore County Public Schools (@BaltCoPS) May 21, 2018 
 
 EYEWITNESS DESCRIBES SCENE 
 
 One area resident, Stefanie Kurek, spoke to WJZ Reporter Ava-joye Burnett after she attempted and failed to enter her neighborhood. She was directed out of the area by police, but was concerned about her children who were home at the time of the shooting. 
 
 “The incident happened outside in front of my house,” Kurek said. “And everyone’s really nervous right now.” 
 
 She said her husband, Tony Kurek, is home with the children, but they are very upset. 
 
 “They actually saw a black Jeep Wrangler and they saw that I guess it was a dead end street and they went to turn around and officers were following them. One of the officers must have gotten out of the car, I’m not sure if gunfire was exchanged or if they ran over her, but she was laying in the street,” Kurek said. “They’re pretty hysterical right now. It’s shocking, it’s scary, it just goes to show it’s everywhere, nobody is exempt from it. I just want to go home, but because they’re on lockdown, I don’t know when they’ll let me in.” 
 
 Her eldest son is a practicing firefighter and was with the officer before additional authorities responded. 
 
 TOUGH MONTH FOR COUNTY 
 
 It’s been a hard month for Baltimore County: 
 
 They suddenly lost its County Executive Kevin Kamenetz to a heart attack, their former schools superintendent was jailed and his replacement wasn’t approved by the state superintendent. 
 
 Now they have lost an officer — the 11th to die in the line of duty in the county since 1932. 
 
 According to the Officer Down Memorial Page, prior to Monday 10 officers have died in the line of duty in Baltimore County. 
 
 RELATED: 10 Officers Killed On Duty In Baltimore County Since 1932 
 
 This is developing news. We will continue to update this story as more information becomes available. 
 
 Follow @WJZ on Twitter and like WJZ-TV | CBS Baltimore on Facebook ||||| Amy Caprio served just shy of four years with the Baltimore County Police Department, but she already had proven herself to be a dedicated officer. 
 
 She was credited with bringing down a pair of alleged package thieves, closing dozens of cases reported around the county at the end of last year. Because of her efforts, the department was recovered a “cache of stolen property,” including a handmade quilt with an inscription, which later was returned to the quilter. 
 
 “She didn't realize that she was embarking on what would become a considerable investigation into holiday package thefts around the eastern portion of Baltimore County, involve numerous cases being independently investigated by officers in multiple precincts, would eventually result in the identification and arrest of two suspects, and would lead to the return of a very sentimental gift,” department officials said at the time. 
 
 Closing the case earned her praise across the nearly 2,000-member department, and she was named the Parkville Precinct’s officer of the month in March. 
 
 On Monday, Caprio, 29, was killed after responding to a call on Linwen Way to investigate a suspicious vehicle. When she confronted the driver of a black Jeep Wrangler, who was later identified as 16-year-old Dawnta Harris, police wrote in charging documents that Harris “drove at the officer.” 
 
 She later was pronounced dead at MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center. 
 
 Harris, of West Baltimore, has been charged in her death. Three other teenage males also are in custody, police said. 
 
 At a news conference Tuesday afternoon, Baltimore County Chief of Police Terrence Sheridan praised Caprio as “the type of officer that you want to hire.” 
 
 Caprio, he said, was “smart, athletic, energetic and, not quite four years on the job, was starting to show that she had all the potential to be an excellent officer and one of the leaders of this organization in the future.” 
 
 “She was the kind of officer that was going to go up in this organization,” he said. 
 
 Caprio is the county’s first female officer to die in the line of duty and the 10th officer killed in the department’s nearly 150-year history. The last was Tactical Officer Jason Schneider, 36, who was fatally shot while serving a warrant in Catonsville on Aug. 28, 2013. 
 
 In a statement, Caprio’s supervisor, Lieutenant Chemelli, described the officer as having “a work ethic like no other.” The department did not release the supervisor’s first name. 
 
 “She truly loved being a police officer and helping others — this was her passion and definitely her calling,” the statement said. “She made the ultimate sacrifice doing a job that she loved. She will be greatly missed by our shift and will forever be our hero.” 
 
 The department also said Caprio loved the outdoors, and activities such as mountain biking and kayaking with her husband. She loved dogs, including her dog named Doodle. 
 
 When Caprio was out on patrol, the department said, she brought a leash and treats for dogs she might come across. 
 
 Gov. Larry Hogan said on Twitter Tuesday that U.S. and Maryland flags will fly at half-staff until Caprio’s funeral service Friday. 
 
 A viewing for Caprio will be held Thursday at Schimunek Funeral Home in Nottingham, followed the next day by a funeral at Mountain Christian Church in Fallston and a service at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens. 
 
 Baltimore County Police Department Officer Amy S. Caprio Officer Amy S. Caprio (Baltimore County Police Department) 
 
 Caprio’s family did not respond to requests for comment Tuesday. On Facebook, her husband, Tim Caprio, posted that he loved her “forever.” 
 
 “You are by far the best thing that’s ever happened to me,” he wrote. 
 
 Caprio and her husband had planned a trip this weekend to celebrate their third wedding anniversary and both of their forthcoming birthdays, the department said. Caprio would have turned 30 on Sunday. 
 
 Tim Caprio spoke on the Norris & Long Show on 105.7 The Fan on Tuesday morning. 
 
 “I’m just still grieving. I don’t know, I just feel like talking about it is definitely better than not,” he told Ed Norris, one of the show’s hosts and a former Baltimore city police commissioner. 
 
 Amy Caprio graduated from Towson Univeristy in 2010 with a degree in exercise science, a school spokesman said. She was also a 2006 graduate of Loch Raven High School. 
 
 She joined the county police department in July 2014, according to a county employee database. She graduated with the department’s 140th recruit class in December 2014 and was assigned initially to the Essex precinct. 
 
 David Rose, second vice president of the Baltimore County Fraternal Order of Police Lodge No. 4, said a number of officers gathered at the FOP’s office in Parkville Monday and Tuesday. 
 
 “We are trying to focus our attention on the family and Amy this week. We’re not going to focus on the arrestees right now,” Rose said. 
 
 He said Caprio had “a huge support system” of friends. 
 
 “Everything I’ve heard about her is she was a stellar officer to work with,” he said. 
 
 In Fallston, a man who answered the door the Caprios’ home Monday identified himself as a family friend but declined to comment. A next-door neighbor said she didn’t know the officer and her husband, except to wave hello. 
 
 Hanging from the Caprios’ home was an American flag with a thin blue line replacing one of the white bars, indicating support for the law enforcement community. 
 
 The investigation into the package thefts began when Caprio was assigned to handle a report of a stolen package in Nottingham, and then a report of empty boxes tossed into bushes along a roadside in Parkville. 
 
 The department said Caprio pieced together evidence from security cameras, interviewed witnesses, tracked a vehicle and compared notes with other officers investigating package thefts in the area. She ended up linking two suspects to dozens of stolen packages in the Parkville, White Marsh, Dundalk, Towson, Cockeysville and Essex precincts. 
 
 When officers found the suspects’ hotel room, it was filled with stolen goods, including a brightly colored handmade quilt with “a heartfelt inscription” that a woman had shipped to her granddaughter, police said. The quilt eventually was returned to the family.
– Police have charged a 16-year-old boy as an adult and are scouring a Baltimore suburb for three other suspects involved in the "shocking" death of a police officer on Monday. Dawnta Anthony Harris is awaiting a bail hearing. Amy Caprio, a four-year veteran of the Baltimore County Police Department, was responding to a report of a suspicious vehicle in Perry Hall when she stumbled on what police think was a burglary. Witnesses describe seeing police encounter a black Jeep down a dead end street, per CBS Baltimore. "I heard, 'Get out of the car!' ... and then a pop," a man tells the AP. A neighbor says his son also heard a pop after seeing the officer confront the Jeep's occupants with her gun drawn. He says the Jeep then hit her, throwing her about 20 feet, per the Baltimore Sun. Caprio was pronounced dead at a hospital shortly before 3pm; the Sun has more on her here. An autopsy and body camera footage will provide more details, say police, who launched a manhunt after recovering a Jeep they believe was involved in the crime, reports the Sun. On Tuesday, officers said that the land and air search continues for three suspects considered armed and dangerous. A local councilman describes the search zone as "a densely populated area with a lot of stream valleys and places where people can hide," per the Sun. Nearly 2,000 students remained at area schools into the evening Monday before an order to shelter in place was lifted. Cpl. Shawn Vinson said Monday the investigation would continue "throughout the night" and "all day tomorrow."