PIKESVILLE, Maryland (AP) -- A police officer was charged with murder Thursday in the shooting deaths of two off-duty Baltimore officers -- one of them his former fiancee.
Eugene Victor Perry Jr., 33, was held without bail on two counts of first-degree murder. He surrendered to authorities shortly after the shootings not far from the town house where the two were killed.
Perry is an officer with the state Department of General Services, which provides security at state office complexes in Baltimore and Annapolis. He had been engaged to one of the victims, who was killed at the home of a fellow officer, police said.
Perry allegedly arrived at the home of officer Adam Vazquez, 26, around noon Wednesday and asked to speak with Vazquez. The person who answered the door told him Vazquez was upstairs sleeping, but Perry forced his way inside, according to court documents.
Vazquez and officer Leslie Holliday, 34, were killed. Both worked the midnight shift, police said.
Holliday's mother, Bernice Johnson, told The (Baltimore) Sun that her daughter had been engaged to Perry until last summer but that recently she had been dating Vazquez.
An adult couple and a small child were at the home when the two were shot, authorities said. Baltimore County Police Chief Terrence Sheridan did not detail their relationship to Vazquez, but a neighbor indicated they were relatives.
Baltimore County police spokesman Bill Toohey said the tires on Holliday's car, parked near the home, had been deflated, and a note was left on the seat. He did not reveal the contents of the note.