Man arrested in connection with case of former Baltimore police officer believed to have conspired to kill husband – Baltimore Sun

Frederick County authorities announced Tuesday that they had arrested a second suspect in connection with the killing of a Pikesville resident who was found dead in January.

It was not immediately clear how the second suspect, 23-year-old Alonzo Michael Epps of Baltimore, is accused of being involved in the death of Brice Wendell Boots, who was 65 when he was found dead in a field in Frederick County was found. Court records, including charges or Epps’ attorney, were not immediately available Tuesday, although police said he was being held at the Frederick County Detention Center on a four-count indictment, including a charge of first-degree murder.

In March, Frederick County Sheriff’s Office investigators arrested a 20-year-old from Baltimore in connection with Boots’ death. In charging documents, investigators alleged that Keon Wilson-Hawkins conspired with his aunt, former Baltimore police officer Frances Virginia Hamilton, to kill her husband, Boots, while the couple was in the middle of messy divorce proceedings. Wilson-Hawkins’ attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Boots and Hamilton, who died in a suspected suicide in February, were scheduled to appear in court for a protective order hearing on Jan. 10, the same day Boots was found dead in a field in the 8200 block of Crum Road in Walkersville became .

Investigators then went to Boots’ residence in Pikesville, where neighbors told them that Hamilton and a man believed to be her nephew had been at Boots’ residence the night before, the Frederick press release said -officials. The next day, police searched his home and found “evidence indicating that there was a physical altercation in the home and that Boots was forcibly abducted.” They located Wilson-Hawkins’ phone and discovered that it had been moved from Boots’ residence to Walkersville Field that night.

Hamilton was once a lieutenant to former Baltimore Sheriff John Anderson and ran for sheriff himself in 2010.