MECHANICSVILLE, Md. – Two suspects were arrested and charged on Wednesday by St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office detectives in a homicide investigation in Mechanicsville.
On Wednesday, May 24, 2023, at 5:28 am, St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrived at an apartment at the 29000 block of Three Notch Road in Mechanicsville for the report of a male suffering from a gunshot wound to the head. Patrol officers arrived and located the victim, Raymond Franklin Woods Jr., age 54 of Mechanicsville, deceased on a couch.
Detectives with the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division continued the investigation, along with the Crime Lab Unit and a forensic investigator from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. The gunshot wound was determined to be a homicide.
As a result of the investigation, Marvin Orlando Johnson, age 38 of Mechanicsville, was charged with First-Degree Murder, Second-Degree Murder, Use of a Firearm in the Commission of a Crime of Violence, First-Degree Assault and Second-Degree Assault.
Additionally, Marlee Lynn Stokes, age 37 of Charlotte Hall, was charged with First-Degree Murder: Accessory After the Fact and Second-Degree Murder: Accessory After the Fact.
Both suspects are being held at the St. Mary’s County Detention and Rehabilitation Center in Leonardtown on a no-bond status.
Anyone with additional information about this incident is asked to call Detective Andrew Burgess at 301-475-4200, ext. 8041.
Citizens may remain anonymous and contact Crime Solvers at 301-475-3333, or text a tip to “TIP239” plus their message to “CRIMES” (274637). Through the Crime Solvers Program tipsters are eligible for an award of up to $1,000 for information about a crime in St. Mary’s County that leads to an arrest or indictment.
How did they find the people who did this?
Because they weren’t Anonymous, pun intended..
They’ll be back on the streets in a couple of days. F46.
Uh, great police work? Duh
Was this the incident above/near Chronic Ink tattoo? Police had that lot surrounded Wednesday morning.
So the wife went to sleep at 6pm, woke up at 10:30pm to the sound of a gun shot, went back to sleep, then woke up at 5am to see her husband dead? If I heard a gun shot that close and my husband wasn’t in the bed next me, I’m jumping up to look for him.
Not only did she hear the gunshot…it says she smelled gun powder but just went back to sleep. Smdh. If that story don’t smell fishy I don’t know what does. And people are saying the female was in the wrong place at the wrong time…no she’s a hot mess. The story says they were there and the guy put a gun in the back of her car. Then her and him went back. I mean you don’t play a game of bingo with a gun. Wth did she think was going on. Maybe if she was at home with her child then she wouldn’t be in jail..just a thought.