One Dead, Another Charged with Capital Murder in Late Night Sunday Shooting in Montgomery

Montgomery police and fire medics responded to the 4300 block of Hartford Street at 10:40 p.m. on a report of a person shot.

Officers arrived to find MCarthur Washington III, 31, dead from a gunshot wound to the head.

Roderick Virgil Owens Jr. has been charged with capital murder.
He was apprehended at the scene.

The motive has not been revealed, but, according to charging documents against Owens, the charge is a capital offense because the victim was in a vehicle when he was fatally shot.

Owens is being held in the Montgomery County Detention Facility without bond.