Baltimore police give report on death to prosecutor

BALTIMORE -- Police completed their investigation into the death of Freddie Gray a day earlier than planned Thursday and delivered it to the chief prosecutor in Baltimore, who pleaded for patience and peace while she decides whether to bring charges.

The deputy commissioner also revealed a new detail that raises still more questions about what the officers involved have told investigators: He said the van carrying Gray to the police station made a previously undisclosed stop that was captured on video by a "privately owned camera."

A grocery store owner said Thursday it was his closed-circuit security camera that provided the recording. Speaking in Korean, Jung Hyun Hwang said officers came in last week to make a copy, and the only other copy was stolen, along with his video equipment, when looters destroyed his store Monday night.

He said he didn't see what the recording showed of the police van April 12.

State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby must review the evidence, consider charges and decide how to move forward in the death of Gray, who suffered severe spinal injuries at some point after he tried to run from police April 12 and died a week later.

Police commissioner Anthony Batts took no questions and provided no details about the report, which he said represents the work of more than 30 investigators. Questions about the case must now go to Mosby, he said.

"I understand the frustration; I understand the sense of urgency," Batts said. "That is why we have finished it a day ahead of time."

Batts said his officers would keep probing at the direction of the state's attorney, while Mosby stressed her office is doing its own investigation.

Batts left it to deputy commissioner Kevin Davis to release yet another official timeline of what happened to Gray after his arrest nearly three weeks ago.

The previously undisclosed stop makes four stops between the time officers arrested Gray and his arrival at a police station, where he was found unresponsive.

He was hospitalized in critical condition and died a week later.

Gray was arrested after he made eye contact with an officer and ran. Officers chased him down and handcuffed him behind his back. Bystander videos recorded police loading him, dragging his legs, into one of two metal compartments in the back of the van.

Police earlier said the van stopped once so officers could put Gray in "leg irons" because he had become "irate"; stopped again because the driver asked for an additional unit to check on Gray's condition; and then again to put an additional prisoner in the van's other compartment before arriving at the station.

Now police are saying an additional stop was made before the driver asked officers to check on his condition.