An 18-year-old has been charged with killing two people in unrelated shootings two weeks apart in Anne Arundel County.
Deondre Tywon Sharps of Baltimore is charged with the June 14 shooting death of 34-year-old Keion McKinney of Severn and the killing of 34-year-old Joshua Ray Holland of Curtis Bay.
Police found McKinney in the 1600 block of Meade Village Circle in Severn after responding to the report of a shooting. Officers found McKinney behind a building, where he was pronounced dead at the scene. Police said it appears McKinney left a townhome and was shot by a man in the rear yard.
Two weeks later, officers found Holland with a gunshot wound after responding to a car crash involving injuries at the intersection of Route 2 North and Orchard Avenue in Brooklyn Park. Holland was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he later died.
Police said witnesses described a vehicle suddenly stopping at the intersection and a man falling out of the driver’s side front door before the vehicle fled.
Officers later located the vehicle in the area of Old Riverside Road near Arundel Road.
Police said the two shootings were unrelated, but did not give details about how Sharps was associated with either McKinney or Holland.
Sharps is being held at the Maryland Reception Diagnostic & Classification Center. He has been in custody since July on a variety of weapons charges, and did not have an attorney listed in the current case.
