A Florida man was arrested Saturday on suspicion of murder in connection to the killings this summer of his ex-wife and her boyfriend at their Maryland home, where the woman’s four children hid in the house for hours. David Phillip Turner, 33, will be extradited on suspicion of murder in the shooting deaths of Crimea Malita Baker, 33, and Sean Lange, 34, which Frederick County Sheriff Chuck Jenkins called a “ crime of rage and anger .” Turner is the father of three of Baker’s four children, Jenkins said.
Lange was the father of the fourth, a baby boy who was born earlier this year. Jenkins said the shooter fired more than 42 rounds at the couple, whose bodies were found in their bed by deputies who arrived at their New Market house at around 7 a.m.
on Aug. 25. In a news conference Monday , Jenkins said that deputies believed Turner snuck into a back door of the house sometime after 1 a.
m., and that the couple were shot at around 1:25 a.m.
The children, ages 13 and younger, told deputies that they had waited for hours before they felt safe enough to emerge from hiding. They were not injured in the shooting, authorities said. “This was a heinous, targeted double murder, a crime of rage and anger,” Jenkins said in a statement after the killings.
Turner, a Miami resident, was arrested Saturday at around 6:20 p.m. on a beach in Fort Lauderdale, Jenkins said.
Multiple law enforcement agencies assisted in the investigation, including the Fort Lauderdale Police Department.
