Officer No Longer Employed With Police Department After Crash

BALTIMORE COUNTY, MD — Tuesday afternoon, the Baltimore County Police Department disclosed that Baltimore County Police Officer William Collazo-Brown was no longer employed with the department. Collazo-Brown’s police powers were suspended Sunday after investigators said he was the driver of a Kawasaki Vulcan motorcycle involved in a crash that killed two in Dundalk.

The 24-year-old officer has been a member of the Baltimore County Police Department since June 2019 and faces charges in the incident.

Collazo-Brown was off-duty when 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 Avenue 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 Road, walked into the road to assist Day, she was hit and killed by Collazo-Brown who also hit and killed Day, police said.

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.