Anne Arundel County Police Investigate Apparent Murder-Suicide Involving Father & Son
GLEN BURNIE (WJZ) -- A double tragedy struck a family Wednesday when police say a young man shot and killed his father in a hospital parking lot before turning the gun on himself and taking his own life.
Police said the victim, 39-year-old Kintrell McEachern Sr., was shot multiple times and as he lay dying in the parking lot at the University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center in Glen Burnie, his son, 24-year-old Kintrell McEachern Jr., drove off.
Radio transmissions among first responders revealed that the shooting happened in the parking lot around 5:30 p.m. and that the son left the scene in a black SUV.
Officials later tracked the son to a wooded area about 12 miles away in Baltimore County near Woodland Drive and South Rolling Road, where they found him dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Police told WJZ that the elder McEachern was visiting a relative at the hospital and the shooting occurred after an argument between the father and son.
Police said after the shooting, family members were also on the scene at the hospital.
"It was a very hectic situation," says Marc Limansky with Anne Arundel Police. "There were multiple members at the scene. This is a very traumatic incident for them to become aware of, or to have perhaps witnessed if they were together when the shooting occurred, so everybody was upset."
WJZ spoke with a woman who said she was the sister of the man killed in the parking lot, and that the young man who pulled the trigger is her nephew.
Off-camera, she told WJZ that her brother was at the hospital to visit their mom, and that the family is now grieving.
In a news release, Anne Arundel County police say they've recovered a handgun from near the body of McEachern Jr. and that it is "...the presumed murder weapon" which will go through analysis. The department said the investigation continues.
The shootings remain under investigation. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 410-222-4731 or Metro Crime Stoppers at 1-866-7LOCKUP.