‘Bewildering’: Neighbors say a peace order, calls to cops did nothing to curb Woodlawn man who went on killing spree Saturday



Police shot and killed 56-year-old Everton Brown Saturday, after he set fire to his townhouse in the Parkview Crossing complex, barged into the home next door and killed two of the occupants and shot two other neighbors in the parking lot, killing one.

“It is just bewildering to us that he would do that to our next door neighbors, being that he was targeting us for so long,” said Ivory Williams Jr., 22. “There’s just no telling the thought process of this man. There’s just no telling.”

The explosion and fire tore through a group of townhomes, leaving the Williams family’s home badly damaged by smoke, fire and water from the firefighters’ efforts to extinguish the blaze.

County officials said at a Monday news conference in Towson that investigators are combing through forensic evidence, as well as 30 years of Brown’s interactions with authorities, including multiple police departments.
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