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Charles Moose, Montgomery County police chief during 2002 D.C. sniper attacks, dies at 68
By MATT SCHUDEL, EMILY DAVIES and PETER HERMANN
WASHINGTON POST |
NOV 27, 2021 AT 3:38 PMCharles A. Moose, the Montgomery County police chief who led a three-week manhunt for snipers who killed 10 people in the Washington metropolitan area in October 2002 and later resigned amid controversy over payments he received for a book he wrote about the investigation, died Nov. 25 at age 68.
His son David Moose confirmed the death but did not immediately cite a cause. In a Facebook post, Chief Moose’s wife, Sandy, said he died at home while watching a football game. According to public records, he lived in Palm Harbor, Fla., a suburb of Tampa and St. Petersburg.
Chief Moose was chosen to lead the 1,000-officer Montgomery police department in 1999, after 24 years in Portland, Ore., where he rose from patrolman to a six-year tenure as police chief. He was the first Black police chief in Portland and the second in Montgomery County, a Maryland jurisdiction just north of D.C.
In both departments, Chief Moose was credited with improving relations with minority populations and adopting community policing, in which police officers seek to strengthen bonds with local residents to reduce crime. (Chief Moose wrote a dissertation about community policing for his PhD, which he received while on the Portland police force.) Known for his contradictions, he was alternately praised for his public outreach and criticized for arrogance and a volatile temper.