No bail in beating death of man, 67
Dion Dixon, 19, is charged with first-degree murder in killing of Randolph Cockrell
A19-year-old Baltimore man charged with beating a homeless man to death will remain in jail, a judge ordered Thursday.
Baltimore District Judge Martin D. Dorsey said Dion Dixon presents a risk to public safety and might not show up for trial as he ordered him held without bail.
Dixon faces first-degree murder, firstdegree assault and weapons charges in the beating death of Randolph Cockrell, 67.
Police said Cockrell was sleeping on a front porch of a home on Oakmont Avenue in Northwest Baltimore Tuesday when Dixon dragged him off the porch and fatally beat him with a large piece of concrete.
Cockrell was found by police lying in an alley with severe trauma to his head, according to charging documents. His injuries and the blood on the concrete indicated Dixon struck him numerous times in the head, the documents said.
Dixon insists he is innocent of the charges, his public defender, Romel Showell, told the judge during Thursday’s bail review hearing.
Showell said he spoke at length with Dixon, who is “adamant” that he is innocent.
But in an interview with police, Dixon confessed to killing Cockrell, showering to remove the blood from his body and discarding his bloody clothes, according to charging documents.
Showell said Dixon has an 8-month-old daughter and he encouraged his client to “keep his eye on the prize” of seeing his daughter. Showell asked the judge to consider some level of bail, even though Dixon’s family might not be able to pay.
“I’m asking the court for a glimmer of hope,” Showell said.
An assistant state’s attorney noted that Dixon has a pending case for animal cruelty and has not taken his medication for anger Korea, where she met Kearney one year management, making him an “extreme risk to later. She was his subordinate, so their public safety.” romance was prohibited by the Army.
In that case, from May, Dixon is accused of Army Sgt. Maliek Kearney was found Once she became pregnant with his child, getting into an argument about a cellphone guilty Thursday in what prosecutors said Ramirez was sent to Fort Meade. She gave with his mother and then grabbing a kitchen was an elaborate plot that ended with his birth to their daughter and lived in the knife and stabbing the family dog, a 4-yearwife shot to death and their baby placed Lake Village Townhomes rental complex. old pit bull mix named Ladybug, according to beside her. Prosecutors said that on the evening of charging documents. Kearney, 37, was convicted of the federal Aug. 24, 2015, someone shoved a revolver
The dog had surgery at Falls Road Animal crime of crossing state lines to commit against her body and fired three times: Hospital and is expected to recover. domestic violence resulting in death. He once into her side, twice into her chest. She
Police were later called back to the faces up to life in prison when he is was shot at point-blank range to muffle the mother’s home, where Dixon had broken a sentenced in November. sound. The killer then placed her baby glass door. Dixon told police that he had not The case brings the second conviction beside her. Maintenance workers called been taking his medication because it makes in the 2015 killing of Karlyn Ramirez, a police after discovering an open glass door him “feel dead inside.” He also told police: “I 24-year-old Army private stationed at Fort at the townhouse. didn’t mean to do that to my dog,” according Meade in Anne Arundel County. Police Prosecutors told the jury Kearney drove to the charging documents. found her shot to death in the bedroom of up from his home near Fort Jackson in That case is scheduled for trial on Aug. 17. her Severn townhouse in August 2015. The South Carolina, killed his wife, then drove Apretrial investigator said that Dixon, who couple’s 4-month-old daughter was found home. He was back at work the next day at has a 10th-grade education, has been treated unharmed beside Ramirez’s body. Fort Jackson. for bipolar disorder and attention deficit Kearney’s mistress, Dolores Delgado, 33, The couple had been married the hyperactivity disorder and has attempted of Florida, pleaded guilty last year to the month before Ramirez was killed, but their suicide. same federal crime. She also faces up to life tumultuous marriage was falling apart.
Dixon, who appeared in court on a video in prison when she is sentenced in Both had been unfaithful, prosecutors screen from jail, said little during Thursday’s September. said. brief hearing. He answered “yes, sir” to the Kearney’s attorney, Teresa Whalen, They said Ramirez wanted a divorce, judge’s questions about whether he underdeclined to comment. and that she blocked his phone number stood his rights and the charges against him. During Kearney’s two-week trial in and sought a protective order from the
Dixon listed an address on East Eager federal court in Baltimore, prosecutors Army. Kearney was enraged, texting her Street in East Baltimore, but court records detailed his alleged plan with Delgado to more than 900 times over two days, show he previously lived on Oakmont kill Ramirez, cover their tracks and stage prosecutors said. They showed jurors Avenue, the Northwest Baltimore street her death to look like a sexual assault. dozens of the texts: threats, pleas, rants, where Cockrell was killed and where LadyPolice found Ramirez with her underwear confessions. bug was stabbed. pulled down to her ankles. “I am just getting hulk mad,” he texted her.RamirezgrewupinTexasandenlisted
in the Army in 2013. She was deployed to Kearney’s defense attorneys tried to Dixon