| The former roommate of missing Baylor University basketball player Patrick Dennehy was charged Monday with murder, authorities said.
The warrant naming Carlton Dotson was issued by police in Waco, Texas, where Dennehy has been missing since mid-June, Chestertown Police Chief Walter Coryell said.
Two officers escorted Dotson, who was wearing handcuffs, into the police department about 9:20 p.m.
Last Thursday, Dotson voluntarily went to the Dorchester County sheriff's office near Hurlock to make a statement about Dennehy's disappearance. He was never in custody and was not arrested, leaving the office with his high school basketball coach.
Waco police declined to discuss what Dotson told authorities last week, saying only it did not change the course of their investigation.
Dennehy's Chevrolet Tahoe was found June 25 in a strip mall parking lot in Virginia Beach, Va.
Authorities said Friday they were trying to determine if a 9mm handgun found Thursday at a Waco apartment complex near Baylor was related to Dennehy's disappearance.
According to an earlier search warrant affidavit, an unidentified informant reported to Delaware authorities that Dotson told a cousin he shot Dennehy as the two argued while shooting 9mm guns in the Waco area.
Friends have said Dennehy and Dotson told them they bought guns because they had been threatened.
Source: AP | |
