Off-Duty Officer Faces DUI Charges After Hitting People: Police

DUNDALK, MD — An off-duty Baltimore County police officer faces DUI-related offenses after he hit and killed a woman and an injured man while driving his Kawasaki Vulcan motorcycle southbound on North Point Boulevard south of Norris Lane.

William Collazo-Brown, 24, has been arrested and suspended from the police force. He's been with the Baltimore County Police Department since June 2019. The incident occurred Sunday shortly after 2 a.m.

According to the Baltimore County Police Department, a motorist driving a Subaru Legacy southbound on North Point Boulevard hit 34-year-old Joshua Day of the 2600 block of Edgemere Ave. while Day was walking westbound across North Point Boulevard. The driver pulled over and stopped the vehicle on the east edge of North Point Blvd.

A second motorist driving by the crash saw Day in the roadway and stopped on the west edge of North Point Blvd. When Berlynn Matthews, 21, of the 400 block of Nollmeyer Rd. walked into the road to assist Day, she was hit and killed by Collazo-Brown who also hit and killed Day.

The case remains under investigation by the Baltimore County State’s Attorney’s Office, the Baltimore County Police Crash Team and the Baltimore County Police Department’s Bureau of Professional Standards/Internal Affairs.