Officers came to a residence where Boyd and his girlfriend had been arguing on Akin Circle after receiving 911 calls in which the two could be heard screaming at 3:09 a.m. on Sunday; when police arrived, the two were yelling, and the woman reportedly told law enforcement that Boyd was on alcohol and drugs.
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Boyd’s encounter with Baltimore County Police occurred after Boyd’s girlfriend called 911 and told the operator that he was acting “crazy”.
Police said that when they arrived on the scene, Boyd appeared to be “confused and paranoid, sweating heavily”.
At that point, Boyd ran around, banging on neighbors’ doors and trying to get inside nearby police cars.
Police said they continued to try to talk to Boyd, and chose to take him for an emergency evaluation.
Twenty-one-year-old Tawon Boyd was injured in the Sunday confrontation and transported to the hospital, where he died Wednesday. The officers said they restrained Boyd by holding him down with their arms and body weight. Police said the “violent resisting” lasted about five minutes. They arrived about 3:30 a.m. and administered something calm to Boyd, but the treatment was blacked out in the police report, the Sun reported.
According to the police report, Boyd continued to try to break free of his restraints even as four officers held him down.
Police said Boyd became calm, and an officer asked a medic to check his pulse. The exact medication was redacted from the police report.
Medics were called during the struggle, police said.
Three officers had injuries that were not believed to be life-threatening. Boyd was breathing and had a heartbeat as he was put in a fire department ambulance, police said. Authorities said Boyd was taken to a local hospital, where he later died.
Police officials said in a news release that an autopsy will determine a cause of death. “There will be a thorough investigation so we can make sure this was in policy, and the officers behaved as they should have”.
The Baltimore County Police and Fire Departments are both conducting investigations into Boyd’s case.
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