Overview
- Prosecutors say 87-year-old Irwin Joseph Dickstein led investigators to the Franklin Street home where his 63-year-old roommate, Michael Roy Bushnell, was found dead after a dispute on Sunday, Sept. 20.
- A pastor at Frederick Christian Fellowship called a sheriff’s deputy after a congregant allegedly confessed to killing someone, and the deputy located Dickstein at the church who gave the address where the body was later found.
- The driver who took Dickstein to the church told prosecutors that Dickstein admitted to shooting Bushnell and placed a gray suitcase in the vehicle, and investigators later recovered a Beretta handgun in a case after obtaining a search warrant.
- Dickstein was charged with first- and second-degree murder, ordered held without bond, and a public defender requested a competency evaluation with hearings set for Oct. 13 and a preliminary hearing on Oct. 21.
- Authorities say there is no ongoing threat to the community and the investigation remains active, with the upcoming competency and preliminary hearings likely to shape how the case proceeds.