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Man With Grill Fork Killed By Police In Wheaton Wanted To Help, Reunite With Mother In Honduras Man With Grill Fork Killed By Police In Wheaton Wanted To Help, Reunite With Mother In Honduras
Man With Grill Fork Killed By Police In Wheaton Wanted To Help, Reunite With Mother In Honduras A grieving family is seeking the community's assistance as thy hope to send a man to his mother in Honduras after he was killed in an officer-involved shooting when police mistook a grill fork for a weapon in Montgomery County. At approximately 7:45 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 21, officers were called to the 3400 block of Janet Road in Wheaton after there was an emergency call placed about an assault in progress. Upon arrival, members of the Montgomery County Department of Police spotted a man, identified as 31-year-old Wheaton resident Melvin Omar Chavez-Paz in a yard holding an object in…