A suspect has been arrested in connection with a July 4 ‘road rage’ incident in Taneytown that left one dead and three injured, the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office said Saturday night.
Davon Joseph Dabbs, 20, has been charged with first-degree murder in the killing of Christopher Patrick Moore II, 36, on Thursday, as well as four counts of assault, according to a Carroll County Sheriff’s Office Facebook Post.
Encountering Road Rage it began between a pickup truck and a sedan on Route 140, and the vehicles followed each other to the intersection of Bear Run Road, police said, where Dabbs exited a vehicle with a 26-year-old passenger and Moore exited a second vehicle. Moore’s 33-year-old fiancée also arrived at the fight in a third vehicle, where she announced she had a gun that was legal to own and possess, police said.
A physical altercation broke out over possession of the gun, which resulted in Dabbs being shot in the left leg and gaining possession of the gun. In the altercation, police said Dabbs hit Moore’s fiancé in the face several times and fired several shots from the gun, shooting a passenger in the hand and Moore.
Police responded around 10pm to a report of a shooting where they found multiple gunshot victims. Moore was pronounced dead at the scene and her fiance was transported to a local hospital with a broken jaw and facial injuries. Dabbs and the passenger in his vehicle were also transported to a regional hospital for non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
Other passengers in the vehicle, including an 18-month-old boy who was hospitalized as a precaution, were not injured.
