A Waldorf teenager accused of murdering a D.C. cabbie last week now also has been charged with the St. Charles drive-by shooting last month that left a woman dead and her husband critically injured. Joshua Terrel Mebane, 17, was arrested near his home in Waldorf on Friday by officers from Charles County and Washington, D.C.
Teresa Ann Bass, 40 and her husband, 43, were walking their dog in the Hampshire Neighborhood in St. Charles on October 26. Bass died after being transported to Civista Medical Center. After the shooting incident a reward of $20,000 was assembled for any information.
At a press conference late Monday afternoon, Charles County Sheriff Rex Coffey asked the question that everyone in Charles County is asking – “Why?” He responded: “There are so many questions and very few answers.” He assured everyone, “We are all confident that we have the guy.”
Mebane was arrested a short distance from his home in Waldorf. Police say a gun linked by ballistics to the St. Charles shooting has been recovered, although they say it does not belong to his parents. It is believed the gun is also linked to the D.C. shooting.
Mebane, and his girlfriend, Linda Bury, also 17, of Baltimore County have been charged with the death of D.C. cab driver Quadar Mohammad on November 7. Captain Rey Aportadera, the lead investigator in the case for the Charles County Sheriff’s Office, said at the press conference that a tip from Baltimore County initially led D.C. police to the pair and that further information also connected Mebane with the Charles County shooting.
Aportadera said that the girl, Linda Bury has been questioned in the Charles County murder but they believe that Mebane acted alone in that shooting. According to published reports, Mebane and Bury had been living in a D.C. motel and ran out of money so they went out to get some. The cabbie became the target of that quest.
Aportadera said that the survivor of the Hampshire shooting, whose name has not been released because of sheriff’s department policy, has been told of the arrest and he was pleased that there was some resolution of the crime.
Aportadera said the arrest was the result of hard police work involving dozens officers from Charles County. Although they did not speak at the press conference, Charles County State’s Attorney Anthony Covington and County Commissioners Kelly, Collins and Davis along with a number of officers stood beside the sheriff and his investigator.
 
