Christopher Lawrence Jones, 44, was found dead in his Glen Burnie home on February 5, 2020. His roommate discovered him in bed with significant upper body trauma and the residence appeared ransacked. An autopsy determined the cause of death was blunt force trauma and ruled the death a homicide. The victim’s 2010 Toyota Camry was also missing from the property.

Investigators quickly focused on a suspect after the roommate mentioned a friend known as Joe who might have taken the vehicle. Detectives located the Camry the same day and, during an attempted traffic stop, the driver opened fire on officers. Two detectives, Scott Ballard and Ian Preece, were shot and seriously wounded; a 16-hour manhunt followed, prompting school closures and shelter-in-place notices in nearby communities. The suspect, identified as Joseph Robert Mitchell Willis of Pasadena, was captured at a residence on River Bank Court, where police also found illegal drugs and detained two other individuals, Shawn Ethan Taylor and Zachary Taylor.

Willis confessed to the murder of Christopher Jones and to shooting the detectives. He was charged with first-degree murder and two counts of attempted first-degree murder. Does anyone in the Glen Burnie or Brooklyn Park area have information about Jones’s movements or the Camry before February 5, 2020?