This article, originally published on March 21, 2024 at 1:45 p.m., was updated at 4:10 p.m. to add details from the charging documents.
Three people were charged in connection with the homicide of Delondre Levert Sawyer, 35, of Germantown, whose body was found in the woods in Gaithersburg last month, Montgomery County police said in a Thursday statement.
Quinnton Brown, 36; DeAngelo McRoy, 26; and Alicia Carson-Brown, 24, who are all Gaithersburg residents, were charged with first-degree murder, according to the statement.
All three are represented by public defenders. The Maryland Office of the Public Defender did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Thursday.
On Feb. 7, Sawyer left his mother’s residence, driving her vehicle, and was seen on surveillance video at 3:55 a.m., and then, at 6:31 a.m., Carson-Brown, Brown and McRoy were driving Sawyer’s vehicle, charging documents stated.
Montgomery County police detective Dimitry Ruvin said in the charging documents that he believes the victim was murdered between those times, and that “in the commission of this homicde,” Sawyer’s vehicle and personal belongings, including credit cards, were stolen.
The three individuals used Sawyer’s credit card(s) at multiple establishments, charging documents stated.
On Feb. 8, after 7 a.m., Montgomery County police responded to a report of a “deceased individual,” later identified as Sawyer, in the woods at the 11200 block Game Preserve Road in Gaithersburg, charging documents said.
Sawyer’s body was transported to the state’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore, where an autopsy conducted Feb. 9 revealed a gunshot wound, police said. The manner of death was then ruled a homicide, according to police.
Through an investigation, detectives identified the three individuals as suspects in the death.
On March 5, police issued an arrest warrant for Carson-Brown, charging her with first-degree murder, along with accessory after the fact and motor vehicle/unlawful taking, and on March 6, she was also charged with armed robbery and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, according to the statement. Police said she was arrested in Gaithersburg.
According to charging documents, in an interview with a detective at the police headquarters, Carson-Brown admitted to being in Sawyer’s car with Brown and Mcroy and said while inside the car, she heard a “loud boom” and “observed blood in the vehicle.”
Carson-Brown did not tell police who shot Sawyer but stated that it wasn’t her or McRoy, according to charging documents.
Also on March 6, arrest warrants were issued for Brown and Roy, charging them with first-degree murder, armed robbery and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, police said. Brown was arrested in Gaithersburg on March 7, and McRoy was already in custody for an unrelated offense, the statement said.
The three suspects are currently being held without bond at the Montgomery County Central Processing Unit in Rockville, according to digital court records.
Sawyer’s death marked the county’s first homicide of 2024. In 2023, there were 29 total, according to Data Montgomery.