Hyattsville PD body cam video shows officers confronting suspect after deadly chase

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Chillum, MD - Body camera footage released by the Independent Investigations Division (IID) of Maryland on Wednesday shows Hyattsville Police Department officers confronting a suspect, accused of hitting and killing a woman pedestrian, during a police chase.

In the body camera footage, two officers get out of their squad cars and move in on the suspect, identified as Warren Leonard, 23, of D.C. In the video, Leonard can be seen lying down on his overturned car with his hands up.

Leonard had an outstanding warrant for second-degree rape and was accused of carrying a gun with an extended magazine during the chase.

Leonard arrested on Feb. 28 with four different gun possession charges, according to records from the District Court of Prince George's County.

"Go check over there, he struck somebody over there," an officer says in the video.

"We got a fatal," a dispatcher can be heard saying on the radio.

The chase started in the late evening of Feb. 28, when Hyattsville P.D. officers tried to stop a driver on the 3300 block of East-West Highway. According to the IID, Leonard went through an intersection, sped onto the shoulder of the highway and hit a pedestrian on the side of the road on while approaching East-West Highway's intersection at 23rd Avenue in Chillum at around 10:15 p.m.

Based on police video, it appears that soon after the driver, Leonard, allegedly hit and killed the pedestrian, his car flipped over.

Esmeralda Montoya-Perez, 33, of Riverdale, Md. was identified as the pedestrian who was hit by Leonard's car in the February crash.

"The pedestrian was pronounced dead on the scene," Hyattsville P.D. said earlier this month.