THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Tuesday, February 21, 1995             TAG: 9502210313
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B7   EDITION: FINAL 
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS 
DATELINE: UPPER MARLBORO, MD.                LENGTH: Short :   47 lines

OFFICER WHO SHOT JUDGE'S SON KILLS ANOTHER IN THE LINE OF DUTY

A Prince George's County police officer who less than two years ago fatally shot the son of a Portsmouth judge has again killed a person in the line of duty.

Officer Wayne D. Cheney shot Michael D. Reed about 12:20 a.m. Saturday after a chase near Upper Marlboro, Md., police said. Reed, 29, got out of his car after he finally pulled over, but refused to obey the officer's orders, police said. Reed then reached for his waistband as if to draw a gun, officials said, and Cheney fired one shot with his service revolver.

Reed, a Kettering roofing contractor, was pronounced dead at 1:36 a.m. at Prince George's Hospital Center. No weapon was found on or near him, police said.

Reed's death occurred about a year after Cheney returned to patrol duty following the investigation of his shooting of construction worker Archie Elliott III as Elliott sat in the back seat of a patrol car in June 1993.

Cheney and Officer Jason Leavitt, of the District Heights police force, shot Elliott 14 times in the chest, arm, buttocks and right hand. The officers said the handcuffed Elliott, son of Judge Archie Elliott Jr., threatened them with an unloaded handgun.

A grand jury declined to indict Cheney, and he returned to duty in January 1994.

In 1989, Cheney wounded a man who police said was armed with a .357-caliber Magnum during a domestic dispute, said police spokesman Jim Terracciano. He said the previous shootings will not be a factor in the current investigation.

``This is highly unusual,'' Terracciano said. ``The norm is that people go through their careers without being involved in a shooting . . . but the officer has to be able to justify their actions at this point in time - not what happened six months or two years ago.''

Terracciano said Cheney has been placed on administrative leave with pay pending an internal investigation. Police are not identifying another officer who was at the scene. He did not fire and is a witness, Terracciano said.

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