Howard police have arrested two additional suspects in the May slaying of a Columbia man in Oakland Mills Village.
Daymar Wimbish, 18, and Lamont Anthony Johnson, 24, both of Owings Mills, were charged with first-degree murder, first-degree assault and attempted armed robbery in connection with the slaying of Jason Batts, 23, Howard police said.
Batts was found shot to death about 2:50 a.m. May 17 in the parking lot of Stevens Forest Apartments.
Police arrested Ronald McConnell, 21, of no fixed address, three days after the shooting and charged him with first- and second-degree murder and assault for allegedly ordering the killing over an ongoing dispute, according to charging documents.
Detectives recovered part of a shotgun at the scene of the homicide and found McConnell?s fingerprints on plastic tape wrapped around the weapon. But Howard police said Tuesday that a witness identified Johnson as the shooter and that he approached Batts and his friends with a shotgun, saying he was going to rob them.
Cell phone records show several calls between Johnson and McConnell before and after the killing, police said. Police said they believe Wimbish was in the area at the time of the killing, and he lured Batts to the scene by calling someone who was with Batts, according to cell phone records.
Wimbish, who was arrested Thursday, is being held without bond at the Howard County Detention Center. Court records show Wimbish pleaded guilty to manslaughter as a co-defendant in January 2007 and was sentenced to about six months in prison.
Johnson is being held in Baltimore County on unrelated charges, police said. Court records show Johnson was convicted of first-degree burglary in June and sentenced to a year and a half in prison.
Batts? death was the first homicide in Oakland Mills since 2003.
