Who Killed Detective Sean Suiter and Why?

Detective Sean Suiter - Courtesy of BPD

There are still many unanswered questions around the bizarre execution style shooting of a 18 year veteran of the Baltimore Police Department, Sean Suiter.  Suiter was with his partner at the time of the shooting - they were canvassing at the scene of a triple homicide that happened nearly a year ago when they observed "a suspicious man" in a vacant lot.  They didn't initially approach him, but when they saw him a second time they did.  There aren't many details being shared except for what was described as a brief but violent struggle between Suiter and the killer where the killer was able to disarm Suiter and kill him with his own weapon.  I want to know how he was able to do this with Suiter's partner there?  How is this even possible?

Baltimore PD Commissioner Davis wants us all to believe the shooting was "random" and had nothing to do with Suiter's expected testimony against 8 of his fellow officers in front of a federal grand jury the following day.  How can this be a coincidence or a random act of violence?  And where and what was Suiter's partner doing during this struggle? Suiter's partner's identity is being withheld or "protected" by the police brass.  What are they hiding?  Sure seems like something is off here.  It sounds to me like he was lured to that vacant lot for the purpose of making sure he wasn't available to give his testimony the next day.  That makes more sense than some random man shooting a detective right in front of the detectives partner.  What's even stranger is how the partner could not give a description of the shooter other than a very generic one.  You'd think you would remember the face of the man who killed your partner.  

The indicted officers are accused of stealing from residents/citizens, racketeering, collaborating with drug dealers and tipping them off to police activities in order to help them avoid apprehension, and there are accusations this "elite" task force was dealing drugs themselves.  That sounds like a whole lot of motive to want someone dead - depending on what Suiter knew and was going to testify to.  Suiter was not subject of the investigation, only a witness.  

According to Afro.com, Commissioner Davis has stated "it appears to be nothing more than a spontaneous observation of a man acting suspiciously and a spontaneous decision to investigate his conduct".  Davis has repeatedly stated that he does not believe the federal grand jury testimony and the murder are connected.  How can he reach that conclusion so quickly?  These officers have a lot to lose if they go down on the pending charges.  Their jobs, their pensions, their reputations.  They call that MOTIVE.  A lot more motive than the random suspicious man in the vacant lot theory.  

It appears not everyone in the Baltimore PD is buying this is NOT related.  One former homicide detective has a hard time imagining how this suspicious man could disarm the 18 year veteran with his partner nearby - the same question I have.  Partners are notorious for covering each other's back.  Further, law enforcement wears holsters, making it even more difficult to get Suiter's weapon from him.  It would have been very difficult had the partner really actually been "nearby".  I'd like to see a full videotaped re enactment of this whole bull crap story.  I'm not holding my breath.

We have not heard the last of this murder - let's pray this doesn't get swept under the rug for the sake of Detective Suiter and his family.  If it was random, that's unfortunate.  It just doesn't seem possible it's unrelated to the federal grand jury testimony given the circumstances with Suiter's partner and Suiter being disarmed by a random suspicious man with no real description.  There are no real leads in this case as of yet.  I could offer a few.........