REHOBOTH BEACH, DELAWARE (8/10/2016) A suspect in a Rehoboth Beach carjacking was killed in a Maryland crash during a police pursuit Monday night and a second suspect was injured, city police said this morning.
The carjacking happened about 10:15 a.m. Saturday at the Royal Farms store in the 400 block of Rehoboth Ave.
An 80-year-old man from Hagerstown, Maryland, reported he had given a man and woman a ride from the Wawa store on Veterans Way, but he became suspicious when they arrived at the Royal Farms and tried to remove the keys but the woman scratched his hand. The victim was able to get out of the car and the man got into the driver’s seat and drove away with the woman in the 2002 Chevrolet Suburban.
After releasing surveillance images of the couple from one of the stores, Rehoboth Lt. Jaime B. Riddle said, police had identified the suspects as John W. Poore, 34, of Elkton, Maryland, and Ashley K. Ford, 25, of Perryville, Maryland.
On Monday night, Maryland Transportation Authority police spotted the stolen vehicle on northbound Interstate 95.
“When officers attempted to stop the vehicle a vehicle pursuit ensued that ended when the suspect vehicle struck two other vehicles at the intersection of Route 40 and Whitehall Road in Elkton, Maryland,” Riddle said.
Ford was flown to Christiana Hospital in Stanton, Delaware, where she later died.
Poore was flown to Maryland Shock Trauma hospital in Baltimore, where he remains in serious condition, Riddle said.
An occupant of one of the other vehicles sustained serious, but not life-threatening injuries as a result of the crash and remains in stable condition, Riddle said.