A Baltimore County Detention Center inmate being held on another homicide charge was charged yesterday in the Oct. 21 slaying of a Hebbville woman who was shot when she interrupted a burglary at her home, county police said.
Clarence Conyers Jr., 27, of the first block of Castleford Court in Woodlawn was charged with first-degree murder and burglary in the death of Wanda Johnson, 44, of the 7100 block of Bexhill Road, police said.
Mr. Conyers already was being held without bail in the center awaiting trial in the slaying of a Gwynn Oak man who was found fatally shot in Baltimore Highlands two days after the Johnson slaying. The charge in the Baltimore Highlands case was placed while Mr. Conyers was at the center on unrelated handgun charges.
Witness accounts and evidence gathered at Mrs. Johnson's home led investigators to Mr. Conyers, said Cpl. Kevin B. Novak, a police spokesman.
Shortly before 11 p.m. Oct. 21, Mrs. Johnson was home alone when an intruder entered her two-story, yellow duplex through an unlocked back door, police said.
One of Mrs. Johnson's four daughters was dropping off her 4-year-old son when she heard her mother screaming and the sound of breaking glass, police said.
The daughter ran down the street to her aunt's home and dialed 911, police said. When officers arrived three minutes later, they found Mrs. Johnson lying on her back in the master bedroom, shot several times in the chest with a pistol, police said.
On Oct. 23, Lawrence Markell Bradshaw, 22, of the Village of Pine Court was shot several times in the chest in the 4300 block of McDowell Lane during an apparent street robbery, police said. Officers found him lying on a sidewalk.
Witnesses told officers that Mr. Conyers had been with the victim and gave police a description, Corporal Novak said.
Two day after Mr. Bradshaw was killed, Mr. Conyers was arrested on the handgun charges and was taken to the Detention Center. On Nov. 1, police charged him with first-degree murder in the Bradshaw slaying, Corporal Novak said.