4 Shot Dead Woodlawn, MD After Coon Starts Nest On Fire To Lure Them Out; Kwops Neutralize Coon

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Witnesses Say Suspect Started Fire To Lure People Out Before Woodlawn Shooting, Police Investigation Continues
May 8, 2021 at 11:50 pm

WOODLAWN, Md. (WJZ) — Four people are dead after a tragic shooting and fire on a townhome-lined street in Woodlawn Saturday morning.

“This guy just started letting off shots at random people,” neighbor Jabari Mansell said.

Neighbors reported a home was on fire at Maury Road and Kellys Court around 6:40 a.m. and that a man was outside of it shooting at people.

“I just opened my door, and the guy, the Black guy come around, like here and he randomly shot at me two times,” neighbor Sushil Chhetri said.

Neighbors said the man may have intentionally set the fire to lure people outside to shoot them.

“The guy set the building on fire – I think it was his own home – and lured other neighbors outside,” Mansell said.

When police arrived, four officers shot at the suspect. Police said he died at the scene. They identified him as 56-year-old Everton Brown.

“Our officers responded to this scene. When they arrived, they found a man outside armed. That threat was neutralized,” said Joy Stewart, director of public affairs for the Baltimore County Police.

Three victims were killed and another man was taken to the hospital, police said. No officers were injured.

Officials said the fire was gas-fed and neighbors reported hearing a loud bang as it happened.


“I heard the sound, the explosion sound. I went out. I came out, like, right in front and the whole house facade was gone,” neighbor Abdul Hadi Syed said.

Police said the investigation into the shooting and fire is complex and ongoing with federal, state and local authorities involved.

“It’s going to be a very lengthy process ahead. This scene is not going to get cleared up overnight and unfortunately, this poor neighborhood is going to be reminded of all this,” said Baltimore County Police Chief Melissa Hyatt.

The four officers who fired their weapons at the suspect have been placed on routine administrative duty, officials said.

#Update The suspect involved in this morning's incident in the 7500 block of Maury Rd. has been identified as 56-year-old Everton Brown. #BCoPD #Baltimore #Marylandhttps://t.co/CC4fvpYHwG pic.twitter.com/K0mMW9Tgab

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Victims Identified In Woodlawn Shooting Saturday, Police Detail Suspect’s Attack

May 9, 2021 at 11:45 pm

WOODLAWN, Md. (WJZ) — Baltimore County Police have released the identities of the three people Everton Brown allegedly shot and killed Saturday, as well as more details about the course of events.

A preliminary investigation indicates Brown, 56, forced his way into a neighboring house in the 7500 block of Maury Road where he stabbed and shot Ismael Quintanilla, 41, police said. As Sara Alacote, 37, ran from the home in an attempt to escape, Brown chased her outside, shooting her several times and killing her, police said.
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When two neighbors emerged from their home, Brown shot both of them, police said. Sagar Ghimire, 24, was killed. The other victim is recovering from his injuries.

At some point during the course of events, Brown also set fire to his own residence, police said. Investigators later found several homemade destructive explosive devices in one of Brown’s two vehicles.

The first officer on the scene around 6:40 a.m. encountered Brown in the parking lot of the townhome community and told him to drop his handgun several times. When Brown refused, the officer shot at Brown, police said.

Eventually, four officers fired at Brown until they were able to arrest him. The handgun Brown used was registered to him, and officers also found a large knife on the hood of one of his vehicles, police said.

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Black Maryland man killed three neighbors before being fatally shot by cops

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Maryland man killed three neighbors before being fatally shot by cops
By Joshua Rhett Miller
May 10, 2021 | 10:56am | Updated

Everton Brown shot three neighbors before burning his own house down. AP


A Maryland man gunned down three neighbors and set his house on fire before officers fatally shot him, police said.

Everton Brown, 56, was confronted by Baltimore County police early Saturday after cops got a report of a suspect shooting at people in his neighborhood in Woodlawn, department officials said in a news release Sunday.

Cops encountered Brown in a parking lot, where he refused multiple times to drop a handgun, prompting four officers to open fire, killing him.

Investigators recovered the weapon, as well as a large knife on the hood of one of his cars, police said.

“That threat was neutralized,” county police spokeswoman Joy Stewart told the Baltimore Sun Saturday. “At that point, firefighters were able to address the fire.”

Cops said a preliminary investigation shows Brown forced his way into a neighbor’s home and fatally stabbed and shot Ismael Quintanilla, 41. That sent Quintanilla’s wife, Sara Alacote, 37, running outside, where she was also gunned down and pronounced dead, police said.

“When two neighbors emerged from their home, Brown shot them as well, striking both of them,” police said Saturday.

One of the two victims, Sagar Ghimire, 24, later died from his injuries, while a second man who was wounded by gunfire was recovering, police said Sunday.

Investigators also found several homemade explosive devices in one of Brown’s cars, police said.

No cops were hurt during Saturday’s triple homicide, which neighbors said came after more than a decade of erratic behavior by Brown, who was paranoid that his home was being searched by the FBI and thought those living near him were somehow involved, the Baltimore Sun reported Sunday.

“He was shooting toward us,” neighbor Kweku Quansah , 51, told the newspaper. “And then I saw a lady on the ground. He turned and shot the lady again on the ground.”

Quansah, a longtime resident of the neighborhood, said the killings were “not surprising” given Brown’s pattern of threats. The man reported Brown to police himself in the past, he said.

“We don’t know why he was doing that, but this has been going on over and over again,” Quansah said. “A lot of people tried to complain about it, but nothing was done.”

Brown had also posted on social media about concerns of being tracked by federal agents. Peace orders were placed against him as recently as Wednesday and in late March, the Baltimore Sun reported.

The fire set by Brown collapsed two homes and damaged a third, fire officials told the newspaper. Attempts to reach Brown’s relatives were reportedly unsuccessful Sunday.

 

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Witnesses Say Suspect Started Fire To Lure People Out Before Woodlawn Shooting, Police Investigation Continues

WOODLAWN, Md. (WJZ) — Four people are dead after a tragic shooting and fire on a townhome-lined street in Woodlawn Saturday morning.
“This guy just started letting off shots at random people,” neighbor Jabari Mansell said.
READ MORE: Victims Identified In Woodlawn Shooting Saturday, Police Detail Suspect's Attack“I just opened my door, and the guy, the Black guy come around, like here and he randomly shot at me two times,” neighbor Sushil Chhetri said.
Neighbors said the man may have intentionally set the fire to lure people outside to shoot them.
“The guy set the building on fire – I think it was his own home – and lured other neighbors outside,” Mansell said.
When police arrived, four officers shot at the suspect. Police said he died at the scene. They identified him as 56-year-old Everton Brown.

 

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Man killed by police after going on rampage that included 3 victims and a house fire

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May 10, 2021

Colin Campbell, Justin Fenton and Christine Condon
Baltimore Sun
BALTIMORE — Few visitors to a particular block of Maury Road near Security Square Mall in Woodlawn could miss the giant signs on Everton Garfield Brown’s home and his Ford Explorer.
“My home & vehicle are continuously being searched by the Authorities,” one read as far back as 2008. “I have never been involved in Any Illegal activities. If you have any information, please Assist Them.”
Brown, who had peace orders filed against him, screamed from his porch through a bullhorn and would walk up and down the sidewalk with a rifle, one neighbor said. He once spent weeks standing in front of the U.S. District Court building on Lombard Street, demanding a stop to “harassment” by federal authorities. Other neighbors said he accused them of working with the FBI to spy on him.
The 56-year-old’s years of erratic behavior devolved into deadly violence early Saturday morning, when he killed three neighbors and was fatally shot by police after an explosion collapsed and burned his Parkview Crossing town house and an attached house in the 7500 block of Maury Road, officials said.
Four Baltimore County police officers fatally shot Brown after they were called just before 7 a.m. for a report of a fire and a gunman. The department on Saturday night identified Brown as the gunman who was killed. No officers were injured, and the department is reviewing body-camera footage of the incident.
Police have offered few details on the circumstances of the incident, which remains under investigation. No family members of Brown could be reached as of Saturday. The names of the other people killed had not been released as of Sunday afternoon.
Shireen Hodge, president of the Fair Brook Homeowners Association which supervises units in the area where Brown lived as well as a complex across the street, said Brown had a history of small disputes with neighbors.
For instance, Brown would sometimes park his car in a neighbor’s parking space, leaving his own vacant. Then, he wouldn’t allow any cars to park in his spot, arguing that it was his property. On at least one occasion, a neighbor called the police, Hodge said, and Brown agreed to move his vehicle.
“When he says he wants nobody on his property, he meant the grass cutters as well. So they had to cut around his grass,” Hodge said. “If you were walking in the community, and you got to his sidewalk, you would visibly see people stop, walk onto the street, walk around the car and then come back to the sidewalk — just so that they wouldn’t walk on his property.”
The disputes, however, never escalated further, Hodge said. She said American Community Management, a property management company based in Linthicum, would have kept records of the complaints, but that company did not immediately respond to a request for comment Sunday.
“There was a lot of that little contentious type behavior, but absolutely nothing of this magnitude ever. And I’ve been here 16 years,” Hodge said.
Still, it wasn’t exactly surprising to hear of Brown’s rampage Saturday.
“It’s shocking, but then it’s not shocking. And I say that because this gentleman, he had all of the signs and symptoms of someone who was clearly suffering from some mental health issues,” Hodge said. “He had a huge sign in front of his house that said FBI, CIA and police are not welcome here.”
Hodge said the homeowners association brought in a mobile crisis unit to help neighbors cope with Saturday’s violence.


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Firefighters on the scene in the 7300 block of Maury Road in Woodlawn, Maryland, where police reported multiple fatalities. Baltimore County Police say they fatally shot an armed suspect. (Kim Hairston/The Baltimore Sun/TNS)



“I didn’t sleep well last night,” Hodge said Sunday. “Untreated mental illness is a very dangerous thing when you couple it with the effects of this pandemic.”
Brown didn’t just put signs up and yell at his neighbors about the alleged FBI harassment; he had posted on social media about being tracked by federal agents, too.
The Baltimore Sun visited his home in 2008, after Brown contacted a reporter saying his home was being repeatedly searched by police. Brown told the reporter he kept his home open so police don’t have to break anything to get inside.
A 2017 picture shows a sign tied to a car that reads, “FBI — All Black People Are Not Criminals. Purge The Hate. It’s 2017.”
Brown also unsuccessfully sued the Department of Justice in U.S. District Court in 2012, alleging the federal agency had been running surveillance on him for more than five years and had unlawfully denied a Freedom of Information Act request asking for records of said surveillance.
In the lawsuit, he alleged one of his neighbors threatened him with a knife and that the FBI was deploying aircraft to run continued surveillance on him.
In his decision to dismiss the suit in 2013, U.S. District Court Judge William Quarles Jr. wrote, “Brown’s videos of purported aerial surveillance by the FBI generally show only stars or other celestial bodies” and that Brown alleged in the videos that “the aircraft are pretending to be stars.”
On April 29, Brown made a post on Facebook that read, in part, “You’re not only searching my property you’re constantly attacking me. Many years ago I realized you were chemically attacking me to make me sleep, so you can freely search my home. For the past two years your chemical attacks has been constant.
“I own a quality constructed laptop bag that I hang from the ceiling at all times while I’m in my house because of your robotics that permanently occupies my dwelling. Your robotics has constantly attacked this bag not because its unable to access the locked zippers but due to its fear of being seen.”


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Firefighters are on the scene in the 7300 block of Maury Road where police report multiple fatalities. Baltimore County Police fatally shot an armed suspect. (Kim Hairston/The Baltimore Sun/TNS)



Court records show peace orders were placed against him on March 29 and again on Wednesday.
Detola Laditan, whose parents have lived three doors down since 2005, said Brown had been “terrorizing the residents on the street” as long as they’ve lived there.
“Everybody knew something was going to happen,” said Laditan, who recalled Brown accusing him of spying on him. “Everybody lived in fear.”
Kweku Quansah, 51, said he heard an explosion and came outside to check what was going on. He said he saw his neighbor’s house on fire, then saw the gunman walking between cars firing shots.
“He was shooting toward us,” Quansah said. “And then I saw a lady on the ground. He turned and shot the lady again on the ground.”
Quansah said he has been a resident in the Parkview Crossing neighborhood for 23 years and said what took place Saturday morning was “not surprising” — it was just a matter of when.
“It was like a ticking bomb,” he said.
Maryland passed an extreme risk gun law in 2018 that allows law enforcement, family members, cohabitants, intimate partners and medical professionals of those deemed to be a risk to themselves or others to petition for a court order temporarily taking away or banning them from purchasing firearms.
Maryland’s version of the “red flag law,” a term discouraged by mental health advocates due to its stigma, has been used far more than similar laws in most states that have implemented them in recent years.
State Del. Harry Bhandari, who got involved with the incidents after discovering a connection to one of the victims, said he’s not sure whether strengthening or better advertising the state’s red flag law would be the proper step. But the Democrat, who represents Maryland’s 8th District in Baltimore County, said he’s hoping to study legislative changes to stop similar tragedies.
County police said Sunday they are still investigating how Brown obtained the handgun he fired at his neighbors.
“[Saturday] night, I could not sleep for a while,” Bhandari said. “I was thinking: How we could prevent that incident happening?”
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( Baltimore Sun reporter Phil Davis contributed to this report.)