Maryland State Police arrested four men Saturday in connection with the death of a Rocky Ridge man who was attacked at a Keymar bar in August and later died.
John D. Robey, 52, and his two sons, Jonathan L. Robey, 20, and Thomas J. Robey, 22, all of the 9800 block of Crossfield Road in Hagerstown and formerly of Woodsboro, were charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter, first-degree assault, and second-degree assault.
Michael J. “Hank” Grimes, 48, of the 11000 block of Woodsboro-Creagerstown Road in Woodsboro was charged with manslaughter and second-degree assault.
The four suspects were indicted Thursday by a Carroll County grand jury.
They are accused of killing Craig E. Myers, 26, of the 10000 block of Rocky Ridge Road in Rocky Ridge. Myers was pronounced dead Sept. 2, five days after the assault, at R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, police said.
Troopers from the Westminster barrack were called to the bar on Middleburg Road in Keymar about 9:15 p.m. on Aug. 28, police said. Police found Myers unconscious in the parking lot of the Crossroads Inn, and he was flown by state police helicopter to the trauma center.
Myers was attacked after an argument in the bar, police said.
Myers knew the men who attacked him, although it isn’t clear how closely, said Maryland State Police spokesman Greg Shipley.
After all the men had been at the bar that night, Myers sustained life-threatening injuries after an argument, he said, adding that a weapon was not used.
An autopsy at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore determined Myers died from blunt force trauma, police said, and his death was ruled a homicide.
The State’s Attorney’s Office presented evidence to members of a Carroll County Grand Jury on Thursday and the Grand Jury handed down the indictments.
Teams of state troopers served the arrest warrants early Saturday. All four men were arrested without incident and taken to the Westminster barrack. They were later taken to the Carroll County Detention Center where they are being held without bail.
John Robey and his two sons lived on Main Street in Woodsboro at the time of the assault. They had since moved to Hagerstown.
Myers was a diesel mechanic with Grimes Truck Center in Frederick and a firefighter with Libertytown Volunteer Fire Co.
Richard Greenwood, owner of Grimes Truck Center, said in September that the loss of Myers was a huge blow to the company, made worse by Myers’ young age and the senselessness of his death.
Myers, an avid outdoorsman, was both respected as a “first-rate” mechanic and liked by company employees and management, Greenwood said.
