Two Elkridge men face murder charges in a fatal shooting at a Halloween party in Columbia, Howard County police announced Monday.

An altercation at the party, held at a large house that had been rented for the event, resulted in a 19-year-old Silver Spring man being shot to death and a 22-year-old Columbia man being critically injured.

Devin “Devon” O’Brian Dixon, 22, of the 8000 block of Paul Martin Drive, in Elkridge, is charged with the murder of 19-year-old, Aaron Thomas Brice and the attempted murder of 22-year-old Nathaniel Quick, who police said might be paralyzed as a result of his wounds.

Dean Schroyer, 21, of the same address, is charged as an accessory to the murder after the fact and with a drug violation, according to police.

County police were alerted to trouble at the party, which drew more than 100 people to the Manorstone Lane house, by several calls from party-goers and neighbors early Sunday morning, reporting that shots had been fired.

Fadeke Iluyomade, who lives two doors away from the residence, said she heard what she thought were firecrackers in the early morning hours. “I was wondering why fireworks at this time of the year,” she said Monday. Then she said she saw people swarming across her lawn.

“I saw a lot of people running on my lawn,” she recalled. “I couldn’t believe what I saw.”  She said she then called police.

Folu Mofoluso, Iluyomade’s brother-in-law, said he was in town from Florida visiting and was shocked when he heard the news the next day.

“I wonder why somebody would shoot a human being like that, kill a human being when it’s not a war,” he said. Mofoluso said he saw police walking side by side down the sidewalk on Sunday, looking at the ground, and he figured they were searching for the gun.

Iluyomade said she had met the owner of the house about three years ago when she moved in but had not seen her since. She did not know the house had been rented out, she said.

At the scene early Sunday  morning, police found Brice dead in the driveway and Quick suffering from a gunshot wound in the basement. Quick was transported to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center, in Baltimore, where he is listed in critical condition. Sherry Llewellyn, a police spokeswoman, said Sunday that Quick is expected to live but may be paralyzed.

Llewellyn said the shooting was the culmination of an argument that had been brewing all evening. She also said the shooting was the second time since June that police had been called to the residence.

Through investigation, police identified Dixon as the shooter and Schroyer as the driver of the car in which Dixon fled from the party.

While executing a search warrant at Dixon’s and Schroyer’s Elkridge residence, police recovered a handgun that might have been used in the shooting, along with approximately three pounds of marijuana, police said.

Dixon, who is charged with murder, attempted murder and assault, is being held without bond at the Howard County Detention Center. Schroyer, who is charged with accessory to murder after the fact and drug possession, is also at the detention center, on $50,000 bond.

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user comments (2)

user samm says...

http://www.howardcountymd.gov/police/docs/shooting071705.pdf What a waste of young lives. Hopefully some of these young people wake up and see the tragedy here Ironically it appears that Quick was involved in a previous crime with Dixon and now has fallen victim to his "friend"

Posted 8:59 PM, 11.02.09 | Permalink

user cascade says...

Good find, samm. Why isn't this Dixon scumbag in prison for that attempted robbery and attempted murder? It would have saved an innocent life.

Posted 11:00 AM, 11.03.09 | Permalink