The mother of a 23-year-old Harford man killed after an apparent road rage incident in Bel Air last week said her son “did not deserve” what happened to him.
“He was a great kid. He was a good kid. He didn?t deserve this,” Stephanie Walker said Tuesday morning.
Her son, Patrick John Walker, 23, of the 800 block of Benjamin Road in Bel Air, was pronounced dead Friday afternoon after he was stabbed twice in the neck.
Walker was a recent Towson University graduate.
Through information provided by witnesses at the scene, Bel Air police charged Michael Razzio Simmons, 19, of the 2000 block of Nelson Lane in Fallston, with first-degree murder.
Once in custody, Simmons told police Walker?s death result from an incident of road rage,police said.
“The suspect felt he was cut off by the victim,” said Deputy Chief Armand G. Dupre of the Bel Air Police Department.
Dupre said Simmons then followed Walker to the area of Eastern Alley, where the circumstances that led to Walker?s death took place.
Simmons alleges, according to charging documents, that Walker got out of his car and “ran into his knife,” a serrated knife that Simmons had in his center console. Simmons also told police he punched Walker while the knife was in his hand.
Witnesses at the scene, however, told police that Walker never got out of his car, and they saw Simmons lean into Walker?s driver?s-side window. They said that as Simmons began to walk away from Walker?s vehicle, Walker got out of his car, bleeding from the neck.
Simmons is being held without bond in the Harford County Detention Center.
A funeral ceremony will be held for Walker at 10 a.m. today at St. Margaret?s Church on Hickory Avenue in Bel Air.
WJZ-TV 10 contributed to this story.
