Murder suspect enrolled at UMES
Folks are still coming to grips with the circumstances of the murder of a Baltimore man whose body was found on the side of the road in Eden.
One of the three people arrested and charged in connection with the murder of twenty- two year old Damon Jennings was a student enrolled at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.
A Maryland State Police spokesperson 47 ABC talked with on Thursday said after Jennings’ body was found, Kevin Nixon knew the police were looking for him.
On October 30th, he turned himself in to the UMES police department. They called the state police, who then picked up Nixon and took him Baltimore for questioning.
Wesley Ridlon, a senior at UMES says, “It’s really nerve- wracking and scary.”
Students at the UMES are stunned twenty-two year old Kevin Nixon has been charged with accessory after the fact of murder in connection with the stabbing death of his apparent friend, twenty- two year old Damon Jennings.
Keanu Lowndes, a transfer student at UMES says, “It’s so close to home here, a body being found on Back Bone Road.”
Francine Paul, a sophomore, continues, “Yeah like we could have been walking there. We could have just seen it just out there in public. There’s people walking and there are kids. It’s gruesome to just have a body lying there lifeless.”
A student tells 47 ABC Nixon was a Computer Science Major at UMES. At the start of the fall semester, he was enrolled as a senior. He’s now on indefinite suspension because of the murder investigation.
According to court documents, Nixon was with Jennings and two of their other friends, Jazzmine Morton and Elijah Carroll the night of October 15th in Baltimore. All of them were in Nixon’s car.
Carroll apparently asked Nixon to pull over, Carroll and Jennings both got out and got into a verbal altercation which ended when Carroll allegedly stabbed Jennings to death.
His body was left in the woods in Baltimore County. Ten days later on the 25th, Nixon and Morton reportedly came back and drove the body to Somerset County dumping it on the roadside.
Court documents show that a receipt for a wire transfer with Nixon’s personal information was found next to the body.
Nicholas McIntosh, another sophomore, goes on, “It’s time for them to go down because that’s taking effort. That’s really planned out, like you wanted to do this. You’re taking the body from Baltimore.”
Although students are shaken and disturbed, many of them like McIntosh are not focusing on Nixon, but feeling for Jennings’ family.
Nicholas says, “I just pray for the family. I hope they stay up because even though you lose somebody you just can’t let that keep you down.”
Now Nixon is being held without bond in Somerset County and has a preliminary hearing scheduled for November twenty-third.
