A dispute in the early morning hours of July 7, 2019, in Edgemere, the Sparrows Point community, ended with 26-year-old Brandon Austin Boemmel shot in the upper body on the 7500 block of North Point Road. EMS treated Boemmel at the scene and transported him to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in critical condition; he was pronounced dead at the hospital about 4:30 a.m.

A 28-year-old neighbor, Jonathan Clay Hickey, who lived on the 7500 block of North Point Road, remained at the scene and was taken into custody for questioning. Hickey was subsequently charged with first-degree and second-degree murder; at a July 8, 2019 bail review hearing a judge ordered him held without bond. The Baltimore County Police Homicide Unit continued to investigate the circumstances of the altercation.

If anyone witnessed the shooting or has information about what led to the confrontation on North Point Road that night, please share what is known.