Howard v. Crumlin

Panel: Beachley, Shaw Geter, Fader, JJ.

Fader, J.

*519 Carolyn Howard, the appellant, presents the question whether a police officer may be held individually liable in tort for failing to make contact with an individual who placed a call for assistance to 911 to which the officer attempted to respond. We hold that Maryland law does not impose individual liability in tort in that circumstance.

*520 BACKGROUND

In the early morning hours of February 19, 2014, Nicole Sade Enoch was in her *577 apartment in Silver Spring. A male friend of a woman who was staying with Ms. Enoch may have been there as well. Shortly…