The DC Generals Police and Fire Football Team would like to offer its thoughts and prayers to the family and friends of Trooper Wesley Brown, killed in the line of duty during the early morning hours of June 11th, 2010. The following is an excerpt from the Associated Press.

Police were searching for a man who shot and killed an off-duty Maryland state trooper working security at a Prince George's County restaurant early Friday. Trooper Wesley Brown, 24, escorted a disorderly customer from an Applebee's on Thursday evening and when he left the restaurant around 12:40 a.m. Friday, State Police Superintendent Col. Terrence Sheridan said that customer shot him.

Brown, who was wearing a jacket that clearly identified him as a police officer on the back, was talking on the phone in the parking lot of the restaurant and was shot without warning, Sheridan said. Brown was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead, police said. Brown's death has devastated the trooper's law enforcement and personal family and the community he protected, Sheridan said.
 
Brown was assigned to the Forestville barracks and was recently engaged to be married, Sheridan said. State Police spokesman Greg Shipley said Brown was working off-duty. Many troopers do security work as part-time jobs, but it must be approved by the state police command, he said.