ELKTON — A gunman remained on the loose Tuesday after shooting a man twice in the chest outside the VFW over the weekend, according to the Elkton Police Department.
NORTH EAST â A man is facing numerous charges after he allegedly punched a Maryland State Police trooper on a street in North East, moments before the investigator confiscated a loaded handgun that had been reported stolen and a dozen baggies containing suspect heroin mixed with fentanyl, according to Cecil County District Court records.
The incident leading to the arrest of the suspect â Jeremy Brooke-Thodos, 32, of the 100 block of West Huron Court near North East â started at approximately 3:20 p.m. on Tuesday, when patrolling MSP Tfc. Arment noticed Brooke-Thodos walking in the area of Jethro Street and Mauldin Avenue, police said.
NORTH EAST - An investigation is continuing after a blaze destroyed a vacant house in North East early Monday morning, according to the Maryland Office of the State Fire Marshal.
WILMINGTON, DEL. â The man who randomly gunned down an elderly Elkton couple at a Delaware cemetery in May â while they were visiting their sonâs grave â had a âdoomsday-like attitudeâ purportedly triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report released by the Delaware Department of Justice.
Sheldon C. Francis, 29, of Middletown, Del., fatally shot Paul C. Marino, 86, and his wife, Lidia, 85, on the grounds of Delaware Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Bear, Del., at approximately 10:15 a.m. on May 8 â before hiding in the nearby woods and later firing at least 78 gunshots at law enforcement officers, striking a DSP armored vehicle, known as a BearCat, numerous times. No officers or other people in that general area were wounded during the incident.
ELKTON â A Delaware man is in custody on murder charges after he allegedly opened fire on the married owners of an Elkton motel in the lobby of their establishment on Friday night â killing the woman and critically wounding her husband, according to police and Cecil County District Court records.
Investigators identified the suspect as 26-year-old Hakeem M. Evans, a Newark, Del., resident who was a guest at the New Eastern Inn at 291 E. Pulaski Highway (Route 40) when he allegedly fatally shot Ushaben Patel, 59, and critically wounded her husband, Dilipbhai Patel, also 59, through a glass partition in the office lobby.
Lt. Lawrence Waldridge of the Elkton Police Department told the Cecil Whig that EPD investigators arrested Evans, who had fled from the scene, at the nearby Royal Farms store at 1199 E. Pulaski Highway in Elkton without incident shortly after the shootings. Before making the arrest, an officer had spoken to Evans on the phone with the assistance of Evansâ�