Baltimore police have obtained an arrest warrant for a third man in a double homicide in Bolton Hill called one of the worst examples of “road rage” in recent memory.
John Jenkins, 27, is believed to be the gunman in the shooting, which killed Edward Baylor, 32, and Rebecca Meekins, 16, on Feb. 27 in Bolton Hill, police said.
Jenkins is currently locked up on unrelated charges at the Eastern Correctional Institution in Westover, Md., said Agent Donny Moses, a police spokesman.
Two other men also are charged in the crime: Tavon Spruell, 22, of the 400 block of Poole Road in Westminster; and Donavon Lawrence, 27, of the 4700 block of York Road in Baltimore.
At 5:40 p.m. Feb. 27, Baylor and Meekins were traveling in a Ford Crown Victoria near North and Pennsylvania avenues, when they nearly collided with a Volkswagen Jetta driven by Spruell and carrying two passengers, police said.
Spruell and Baylor then drove side by side yelling obscenities, according to charging documents.
Both vehicles stopped on the 1500 block of Mount Royal Avenue — and gunshots were fired from the Jetta’s passenger-side window, charging documents state.
Lawrence, one of the passengers in the Jetta, handed a .40-caliber Glock handgun to Jenkins before the shooting began, police said.
“Jenkins discharged the aforementioned weapon in the direction of the white Crown Victoria,” according to the police report.
Baylor tried to drive away, but Spruell followed. Several parked cars were struck in the chase, including a Saturn sedan that was crashed into by the Crown Victoria, police said.
Baylor and Meekins suffered gunshot wounds to the upper body and were pronounced dead at University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center.
The Jetta had been stolen from Baltimore County a week earlier, police said.
