
Violence is always unacceptable, especially when the target is those who are committed to protecting this city,” Mosby said in a statement. “As a mother, I extend my sincere condolences and prayers to Officer Holley’s four children, friends, colleagues and family. Marilyn Mosby, Baltimore City’s state’s attorney, said she intended to prosecute “to the fullest extent of the law” the people responsible for the crime. But as soon as it was Holley, it was just like a pit in my stomach.” “I couldn’t tell you the name of 98% of them. “I see, I don’t know, almost 200 people a year, whatever we put through in the academy,” he said. When he found out Holley was shot, Janu said he couldn’t believe it. She was ultimately convinced to continue the training and graduate, and Janu remembers seeing her on graduation week and how happy she was she had stuck with it. He was one of a few people who sat with her afterward, when she shared she was afraid because she didn’t want to leave her children motherless.

Janu also recalled a moment during Holley’s academy process when she ran out of the room crying. “I felt like she could’ve done anything in the department and done the most to give back to the City of Baltimore.” “You ask people what they want to do in the department and, you know, people say SWAT, people say ‘I want to be in DAT (District Action Team) and kick doors.’ … Her attitude was ‘I don’t care what I do, I just want to give back to the community,’” Janu recalled.

Bill Janu, an instructor with Baltimore Police, said Holley stood out to him because when he asked her class of recruits what drew them to the profession, she said she was a Baltimore City resident and wanted to make the city a better place. Police crime scene tape flutters in cold gusts of wind where the police vehicle crashed through a fence, plummeting into the park grass below as a group of mourners gather during a prayer vigil at Curtis Bay Park for Baltimore Police officer Keona Holley, currently on life support after being ambushed several days ago at the park.
