City officer indicted in death of unarmed man in Jan.

A Baltimore city grand jury indicted a city police officer Tuesday on charges of voluntary and involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of an unarmed man he was questioning in Northeast Baltimore in January, according to the state's attorney's office. It is only the second time since 1996 that a Baltimore officer has been indicted in an on-duty police-involved shooting. The January shooting was one of 16 by city officers this year that have resulted in a dozen fatalities, one short of the number killed in all of last year. Officer Tommy Sanders III, 37, is expected to surrender to authorities, city prosecutors said in a statement released after the indictment was returned. He is a six-year veteran of the force. Paul Blair, the head of the city's Fraternal Order of Police, described Sanders as 'very upset' and added: 'He's got a family. ... He lives in the city, the type of police we want working in this department. Hopefully, he will have a fair day in court and all of the facts will come out.' Sanders is charged with shooting Edward Lamont Hunt, a 27-year-old man he had deemed suspicious and had stopped about noon in the Hamilton Park Shopping Center on Northern Parkway.

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