Murder charges dropped in Halloween party slaying

Howard County prosecutors have dropped charges against a man accused of fatally shooting a Silver Spring teenager on Halloween. The murder charge against Devin Dixon, of Elkridge, was dropped Tuesday. An attempted murder charge against him was dropped last month. Nineteen-year-old Aaron Brice was killed, and 22-year-old Nathaniel Quick, of Columbia, was paralyzed in a fight at a party in Clarksville.