(WBFF) — No charges will be sought in relation to the fatal police-involved shooting that took place in Essex on December 3, 2025, Attorney General Anthony Brown announced.
The incident left 31-year-old Howard Sye dead.
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Around 8:30 p.m. on the date in question, officers responded to an apartment in the 900 block of Holgate Drive for a reported stabbing.
There, they found a man, later identified as Sye, holding a knife.
Sye did not comply with verbal instructions from officers to drop the knife, at which time an officer attempted to take it. Sye refused to release the knife and began punching at the officer with his free hand. At that time, multiple other officers fired shots, striking Sye.
Sye was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
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An investigation by the Attorney General’s Independent Investigations Division (IID) began that same day and concluded on March 16, 2026. Through the evidence accumulated in the course of that process, the Attorney General’s office determined that no crime was committed by the involved officers, and as such, no charges will be filed.
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