One Harford County man is dead and another is in critical condition after an argument apparently led to an attempted murder-suicide Sunday morning.
A longstanding feud came to a violent end at 6:39 a.m. when 50-year-old Larry Randal Bank was shot several times on the front steps of his mobile home in the 3700 block of Love Road in Darlington, said Harford County Sheriff?s Office spokesman Bob Thomas.
The suspect, identified only as a 48-year-old Bel Air resident, then drove to the home of a friend and fatally shot himself, Thomas said. He declined to release the man?s name until his family had been notified.
The suspect left Bank?s house and drove to the home of a friend living on Poole Road, about 2 miles away. He woke up the friend and his family, made “some incriminating statements” about shooting Bank and then committed suicide within the next two hours, Thomas said.
Officers from the Sheriff?s Office were at the friend?s house negotiating with the suspect and trying to persuade him outside when he shot himself, Thomas said.
Police know the specifics of the feud between Banks and his assailant, who had apparently known each other for some time, but would not discuss it while the case was still under investigation, Thomas said.
Bank, who made it back into his home to call police, was treated at the scene by medics from the Darlington Volunteer Fire Company and was then flown by helicopter to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.
He was listed in critical condition Sunday afternoon, hospital officials said.
