Overview
- Police identified the victim as 33-year-old Dashond Tamar Johnson, whose body was recovered near the Gwynns Falls Trail off the 2800 block of West Baltimore Street.
- Eric Jones Jr., 30, is in custody on charges of premeditated murder and first- and second-degree assault, according to arrest documents.
- Investigators say Jones told detectives he stabbed Johnson multiple times, placed the body in a wagon covered with a suitcase, and transported it to Leakin Park.
- Police report that Jones later guided detectives and firefighters on Jan. 20 to the area where he said he dumped the body.
- A resident’s 911 call on Jan. 2 described hearing screams, seeing Johnson collapse, and watching another man wheel him away in a cart, while a search warrant at the home found possible blood in multiple rooms.