A drug feud inspired a shooting that followed a Colesville car crash and has led to drug, weapons and accessory charges for four Silver Spring teens, Montgomery County police said Wednesday.
According to police, Braxton Boyd, 19, had been feuding with the 19-year-old shooting victim for weeks when the two saw each other at a Colesville 7-Eleven on Monday morning.
Around 9:55 a.m., and about a mile from the 7-Eleven, the victim plowed his 2003 Saturn Ion into a 2005 Toyota RAV4 being driven by Boyd at the intersection of Montvale Drive and Flannery Lane, police said. The victim then took off on foot, but Boyd was hot on his heels, pulled a stolen gun and fired several shots, striking the victim in the arm, police said.
Boyd and his two passengers, Kyle Dalgeish, 18, and Nicholas Albaugh, 19, fled the scene, only to be caught soon after by a detective who recognized Boyd from witness descriptions, police said.
Boyd was charged with first-degree attempted murder as well as weapons charges, including one for “obliterating the identification number of a firearm.” Dalgeish and Albaugh were charged with accessory to first-degree attempted murder after failing to report the shooting and refusing to speak with police.
Police traced the Toyota’s registration to the 13200 block of Tamarack Road, where Boyd’s 19-year-old girlfriend, Katherine Fields, lives with her grandmother, Rubye Fields.
“The Saturn was my car and they took it without my permission,” Rubye Fields told The Examiner when reached by phone.
But Fields declined to comment on the marijuana and two handguns police said they found in her home Monday afternoon.
When officers arrived after following the lead from the Saturn’s registration, they smelled the strong odor of marijuana wafting through the Fields home, police said. They returned with a search warrant and found a “large quantity” of marijuana packaged for distribution and the guns, police said.
Police promptly arrested Katherine Fields on drug and gun charges. She was not in the car at the time of the shooting.
