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ELKTON â A Delaware man is in custody on murder charges after he allegedly opened fire on the married owners of an Elkton motel in the lobby of their establishment on Friday night â killing the woman and critically wounding her husband, according to police and Cecil County District Court records.
Investigators identified the suspect as 26-year-old Hakeem M. Evans, a Newark, Del., resident who was a guest at the New Eastern Inn at 291 E. Pulaski Highway (Route 40) when he allegedly fatally shot Ushaben Patel, 59, and critically wounded her husband, Dilipbhai Patel, also 59, through a glass partition in the office lobby.
Lt. Lawrence Waldridge of the Elkton Police Department told the Cecil Whig that EPD investigators arrested Evans, who had fled from the scene, at the nearby Royal Farms store at 1199 E. Pulaski Highway in Elkton without incident shortly after the shootings. Before making the arrest, an officer had spoken to Evans on the phone with the assistance of Evansâ
ELKTON â A Delaware man is in custody on murder charges after he allegedly opened fire on the married owners of an Elkton motel in the lobby of their establishment on Friday night â killing the woman and critically wounding her husband, according to police and Cecil County District Court records.
Investigators identified the suspect as 26-year-old Hakeem M. Evans, a Newark, Del., resident who was a guest at the New Eastern Inn at 291 E. Pulaski Highway (Route 40) when he allegedly fatally shot Ushaben Patel, 59, and critically wounded her husband, Dilipbhai Patel, also 59, through a glass partition in the office lobby.
Lt. Lawrence Waldridge of the Elkton Police Department told the Cecil Whig that EPD investigators arrested Evans, who had fled from the scene, at the nearby Royal Farms store at 1199 E. Pulaski Highway in Elkton without incident shortly after the shootings. Before making the arrest, an officer had spoken to Evans on the phone with the assistance of Evansâ