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Double murder suspect held without bail

Published 07/03/09

As the man accused of killing his former girlfriend and her new boyfriend in Annapolis faced a judge in a bail hearing yesterday, the apparent crime of passion began reverberating across the lives of families and friends.

Courtesy photo Elbert Gardner Jr., 56, was arrested Wednesday and charged with two counts of second-degree murder and one count of attempted murder.
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Elbert Gardner Jr., 56, was arrested Wednesday and charged with two counts of second-degree murder and one count of attempted murder.

Police investigators said he shot his former girlfriend, Lei Tyree Johnson, 38, and Samuel Marshall Fowlkes, 49, when he found them together at the Goodrich Road home that he rented in the quiet Admiral Heights community.

Gardner and Johnson moved there about nine months...

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