Amy Jean Uff, 53, was shot and killed in her Marion Station, Maryland home in the early hours of October 1, 2023. Police were called to a residence on Hudson Corner Road shortly before 3 a.m. For a report of a shooting; officers saw a man exiting the house and took 42-year-old Morris Edward Cotton III into custody at the scene. Emergency personnel pronounced Uff dead from a gunshot wound inside the residence.

The Maryland State Police Homicide Unit is leading the investigation. Morris Edward Cotton III was charged with first-degree murder, second-degree murder, and related offenses and was held at the Somerset County Detention Center pending a bond hearing. Uff was born June 22, 1970, in Salisbury, Maryland, spent part of her youth in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and returned to the Eastern Shore in the 1980s. She is remembered by her family as a mother, daughter, sister, grandmother, and friend.

If anyone has information about Amy Jean Uff’s death or was in the area of Hudson Corner Road around 3 a.m. on October 1, 2023, please come forward.