WASHINGTON — Police have made in an arrest in connection with a double homicide in Burtonsville, Maryland, last month.
Montgomery County police arrested 24-year-old Gregory Jones of West Virginia on Monday after they said bullets from another crime scene tied him to the fatal shootings of 34-year-old Ashley Susan Dickinson, of Alexandria, Virginia, and 29-year-old Joshua Michael Frazier, of Woodbridge, Virginia. He has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder.
On the evening of Feb. 15, the bodies of Dickinson and Frazier were found in a running car parked in a town house parking lot in Burtonsville, Maryland.
Tips from the public and forensic evidence revealed that Gregory Jones and his cousin, 25-year-old Tyshon Jones, were involved in the homicide and that Frazier had traveled to the scene to collect money Gregory Jones owed him from a previous heroin deal, police said. Earlier this month, police had said they believed the victims knew their killer.
Two days after Dickinson and Frazier’s fatal shootings, Tyshon Jones was killed during a shooting at a West Virginia night club. Bullets from a 9 mm handgun were found at the nightclub shooting, and tied to Gregory Jones, who fled the scene.
Forensic analysis of the 9 mm shell casing recovered from the West Virginia nightclub shooting scene and a 9 mm shell casing recovered from the Burtonsville homicide scene “revealed that both rounds of ammunition were fired from the same gun,” police said.
Police arrested Gregory Jones in Gaithersburg Monday. He is being held without bond.
