A suspect has been arrested in connection with a July 4 road rage incident in Taneytown that left one person dead and three others injured, the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office said Saturday night.
Davon Joseph Dabbs, 20, has been charged with first-degree murder in the Thursday killing of Christopher Patrick Moore II, 36, in addition to four counts of assault, according to a news release. Carroll County Sheriff’s Office Facebook Post.
The encounter with road rage The altercation 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 one vehicle with a 26-year-old passenger and Moore exited a second vehicle. Moore’s 33-year-old fiancée also arrived at the scene of the altercation in a third vehicle where she announced she had a handgun that she legally owned and carried, police said.
A physical altercation broke out over handgun possession, during which Dabbs was shot in the left leg and took possession of the handgun. During the altercation, police said Dabbs punched Moore’s fiancée in the face multiple times and fired several shots from the handgun, striking a passenger in the hand and Moore.
Police responded around 10 p.m. to a report of a shooting in which multiple victims were shot. Moore was pronounced dead at the scene and his fiancée was taken to a local hospital with a broken jaw and facial injuries. Dabbs and the passenger in his vehicle were also taken to a regional hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
The other passengers in the vehicle, including an 18-month-old child who was taken to hospital as a precaution, were not injured.
