CRIME & SAFETY

A Virginia McDonald's manager is recovering after being struck in the head twice with a hammer -- and authorities said it all stemmed from an argument about free food.

Authorities announced over the weekend that James Jerome Adams, Jr., a minor from Great Mills, and an adult from Bushwood who was a juvenile at the time, have been indicted and charged as adults in connection to the murder of Marcus Anthony Day in April. Officials noted that at the...

LEONARDTOWN, MD November25, 2023) – Update November 25, 2023: As a result of continued investigative efforts by detectives with the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division, on Monday, November 20, 2023, 19-year-old James Jerome Adams Jr., a juvenile from Great Mills, Maryland, and an adult, who at the time of the incident was a juvenile from Bushwood, Maryland, were indicted for their involvement in the murder of 26-year-old Marcus Anthony Day on April 4, 2023. Both the juvenile from Great Mills, Maryland and the adult from Bushwood, Maryland, were charged as adults.

On August 16, a young woman named Kaylee Smith was the passenger in vehicle traveling through Warsaw when she was shot and killed. Richmond County Sheriff’s Office named 18-year-old James Anthony Benjamin Barnes of Hague as the suspected shooter, as previously reported.