A Prince George's County police officer fatally shot a 30-year-old man early yesterday in Upper Marlboro after the man reached toward his waistband, county police said. It was the second fatal shooting involving the officer in two years.
Officer Wayne D. Cheney, who has 6 1/2 years on the force, was placed on routine administrative leave pending an investigation, said Capt. Jim Terracciano, a police spokesman.
The officer had returned to duty in January 1994, after being cleared for his part in a June 1993 death.
The man killed yesterday, Michael Donald Reed, may have been living in his car, police said.
He was pronounced dead at Prince George's Hospital Center in Cheverly soon after a 12:20 a.m. confrontation near a junkyard in northwestern Upper Marlboro.
No weapon was found.