Resident charged with killing 2 at Maryland senior community
CAPITOL HEIGHTS, Md. – Maryland police announced first-degree murder charges on Saturday against a resident of a senior living community who fatally shot two staff members inside the facility a day earlier.
Roy Batson, 63, remains in custody on a no-bond status, Prince George’s County police said in a news release.
Batson, of Capitol Heights, is accused of killing 46-year-old Mackeda
Evans, of Temple Hills, and 46-year-old Michelle Boateng, of Capitol Heights, on Friday at the Gateway Village senior living community in Capitol Heights, just outside of Washington. Boateng worked and lived at the complex, police said.
The preliminary investigation found that Batson had confronted Evans on Friday morning about a prior dispute between the two in October over a violation notice, police said. He admitted to going to his apartment, retrieving a gun and returning to the first-floor office area and shooting both victims, police said.