Overview
- A late-night domestic dispute in Abingdon left a 65-year-old man with a gunshot wound who was stabilized by medics and airlifted to a trauma center and is in critical but stable condition, according to the sheriff’s office.
- Joseph S. Ray, 66, was arrested at the Sharilynn Drive scene and charged with attempted first- and second-degree murder plus multiple firearm offenses; he is awaiting initial judicial review.
- Separately, a Crime Suppression Unit stop that began after a tip escalated into a foot pursuit in Abingdon when the driver struck multiple vehicles and two deputies fired their service weapons at an intersection.
- The foot-pursuit suspect was treated at a hospital, later identified as 23-year-old Shemar Mekhi White, and charged with first- and second-degree assault and two counts of malicious destruction of property.
- Both incidents are being investigated by the Harford County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division to establish sequence and cause, including whether deputy gunfire or other force caused the pursuit suspect’s injuries, and the deputies involved remain on routine administrative leave.