A Glen Burnie dentist was killed in his office Tuesday night, police said.
Police found Albert Woonho Ro, 51, dead in his office in the 1400 block of Crain Highway with “multiple injuries” to his upper body, said Officer Sara Schriver, spokeswoman for the Anne Arundel County police.
Citing the ongoing investigation, Schriver said she could not release specific information about those injuries, but said police are investigating his death as a homicide “based on the trauma that he received to his upper body.”
An autopsy was performed Wednesday, but results were not available.
Ro?s wife called county police at about 10 p.m. Tuesday to ask them to check up on her husband, Schriver said. She told police she had driven past his office earlier and saw his car parked out front, but that he was not answering the office telephone. Police met her at the office, opened the door and found Ro?s body, Schriver said.
Michael Ro, Albert Ro?s brother, said Wednesday evening that he still didn?t know how his brother died, but that the office was ransacked. The office was empty Wednesday, but from an outside window, it was evident that many drawers had been opened and there were bags strewn across the floor.
Albert Ro had been practicing dentistry in Maryland for 20 years after graduating from the University of Maryland dental school, his brother said. He also had a practice in Towson.
“He is easygoing,” Michael Ro said, “He loved his family members. He was happy with his job.”
Albert Ro had two sons, 20 and 21, with his first wife. One is a student at the University of Virginia, and the other is a student at the University of Maryland.
Ro had been married to his second wife for about three years, and they lived together in a house in Hanover, his brother said.
“I have no idea what could have happened,” Michael Ro said. “Clearly it sounds like someone was trying to get him.”
