Baltimore County police are investigating three homicides that occurred during the Thanksgiving holiday, including at least two resulting from domestic disputes.
» Investigators are searching for Rex Nicholas Wesley, 36, in the stabbing death of his girlfriend, Donna Brown, 30.
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Brown’s mother found her daughter on the floor, stabbed in the back of the neck, and Wesley standing over her around 8:30 p.m. Thursday in her house in the 3800 block of Marriottsville Road in Woodlawn.
Wesley ran from the scene; Brown was pronounced dead at University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.
Wesley was last seen wearing bluejeans, and a dark gray T-shirt under a black hooded pullover and sneakers.
» Earlier Thanksgiving day, police were called to the house of Tanya Drakes, 33, in the 700 block of Maplecrest Drive in Essex.
Drakes hadn’t been seen for days. Responding officers forced their way into the house and found her on her bed. An autopsy determined she was strangled, and the case was ruled a homicide, police said.
» In the third homicide over the holiday, Timothy Paul Lekin, 35, was found Wednesday slumped over the wheel of his car in the 100 block of Sparks Valley Road in Cockeysville. He was shot.
Evidence at the scene linked Keri Lynne Schneider, 36, of the first block of Thornhill Road in Lutherville, to the killing, police said. Officers said she had been in a relationship with Lekin.
An investigation revealed that Schneider shot Lekin, and then called her husband who picked her up, and the two began driving to the home of relatives in Hagerstown, police said.
Officers tracked their route and the couple was arrested Thanksgiving morning. Schneider was charged with first-degree murder and is being held without bail at the Baltimore County Detention Center. Her husband has not been charged.
The three killings bring Baltimore County’s homicide total for the year to 27.
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