A Maryland man was billed with initially-degree murder following allegedly stealing a forklift from a Lowe’s Property Improvement shop and then managing above a girl with it in the close by parking large amount of a Household Depot, authorities explained Monday.
Officers responded to a report of a burglary and theft in development at a Lowe’s at about 12:40 a.m. Sunday, the Charles County Sheriff’s Workplace stated in a statement on Facebook.
A suspect, Bryce Caleb Timothy Brown, 20, of Waldorf, “broke into the business enterprise, stole a forklift and rammed it by means of the rear gates,” in accordance to the sheriff’s business.
Brown then drove the forklift to a Home Depot, which is about half a mile northeast of the Lowe’s, where he rammed a auto in the store’s parking lot. Inside that auto, the sheriff’s workplace claimed, was a sleeping Gloristine Pinkney, 73, of Waldorf, whom Brown did not know.
Pinkney woke up, acquired out of the automobile and began functioning absent, the sheriff’s business said.
“Brown followed her, struck her with the forklift and ran over her, and then stole the victim’s auto and fled,” according to the sheriff’s place of work. “Officers who were being investigating the initial theft at Lowe’s canvassed the location and observed the forklift in the Household Depot parking ton. They subsequently found out the sufferer underneath of the forklift she was pronounced deceased on the scene.”
Brown was identified as a suspect and arrested Sunday night, the sheriff’s office said. He was becoming held without the need of bond at the county detention heart, the sheriff’s place of work explained, on prices that provided initial-degree murder, second-diploma murder, assault and theft.
It was unclear Monday afternoon if Brown experienced retained an attorney. His relatives could not be quickly achieved for remark.
Makes an attempt to access Pinkney’s family have been unsuccessful.
Waldorf is about 60 miles south of Baltimore.
Madelyn Urabe and Donna Mendell contributed.
