Terence Dale Sutton, Jr.

Second-degree murder, conspiracy to obstruct justice, and obstruction of justice. Sutton, a Fourth District MPD officer, conducted an unauthorised high-speed pursuit of 20-year-old Karon Hylton-Brown on October 23, 2020. Hylton-Brown was riding an electric moped helmetless on a sidewalk — a minor traffic violation for which MPD policy explicitly prohibited a chase. Sutton pursued him for three minutes across 10 city blocks, reaching twice the residential speed limit, driving the wrong way on a one-way street, and turning off his emergency lights and sirens as he accelerated toward a narrow alley exit. Hylton-Brown was struck by an oncoming vehicle as he exited the alley and died two days later. Sutton then conspired with his supervising lieutenant, Andrew Zabavsky, to cover up the pursuit — falsifying incident reports, deactivating body cameras, and failing to collect witness statements. He is the first MPD officer ever convicted of murder while on duty.