Carroll County Sheriff’s Office arrest suspect in Fourth of July ‘road rage’ incident resulting in one dead
A suspect was arrested in connection to a ‘road rage’ incident that occurred on the Fourth of July in Taneytown that left one dead and three injured, the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office said on 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 assault charges, according to a Facebook post from the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office.
The road rage encounter 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 fiancé also arrived at the altercation in a third vehicle where she announced she had a handgun which was legally owned and carried, police said.
A physical altercation broke out for possession of the handgun which resulted in Dabbs being shot in the left leg and gaining possession of the handgun. In the altercation, police said Dabbs struck Moore’s fiancé in the face multiple times and fired multiple rounds of the handgun, shooting a passenger in the hand and Moore.
Police responded around 10 p.m. to the report of a shooting where they found multiple gunshot victims. Moore was pronounced dead at the scene, and his fiancé was transported to a local hospital with a broken jaw and injuries to the face. Dabbs and the passenger from his vehicle were also transported to a regional hospital for non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
Other vehicle passengers, including an 18-month-old who was hospitalized as a precaution, were not injured.
