ELKTON — A teen accused of pointing a handgun at a woman and threatening to shoot her outside of her residence in an Elkton neighborhood has been sentenced to time served — about five months — after accepting a plea deal, according to Cecil County Circuit Court records. During a courtroom hearing on Thursday, Cecil County Circuit Court Judge William W. Davis Jr.
imposed a five-year sentence on the defendant — Elkton resident Daijoun A. Sconion, who turns 19 on Aug. 28 — for possession of a firearm and then suspended all but the five months that Sconion had served as a pre-trial inmate in the Cecil County Detention Center after his March 7 arrest, court records show.
The judge imposed the same sentence on Sconion for loaded handgun on a person and made that penalty concurrent to the other one, according to court records. In addition, the judge ordered Sconion to serve two years of supervised probation and to forfeit the firearm that was seized after the incident, court records show. Sconion pleaded guilty to those two criminal charges on Thursday as part of a plea deal reached by Assistant State’s Attorney Robert Sentman and Sconion’s lawyer, Assistant Public Defender Jason Ricke, according to court records.
In exchange for Sconion’s guilty pleas, prosecutors dismissed eight related charges, including first-degree assault, reckless endangerment and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony or a crime of violence, court records show. The investigation leading to Sconion’s arrest started when the woman called 911 at 1:35 a.m.
on March 6 and reported that a man with whom she is familiar pointed a gun equipped with a green laser at her while she was seated inside her vehicle in the driveway of her residence in the unit block of Bonnie Marie Court and ordered her get out so he could shoot her, police reported. But the woman remained inside her vehicle, prompting the suspect — later identified as Sconion — and a companion of his to get back into a white Kia Soul, which was parked across the street, and then drive away, police said. Moments earlier, the suspect had arrived at Bonnie Marie Court in that Kia, which was occupied by at least three other males, police added.
A few minutes after the Bonnie Marie Court incident, Elkton Police Department officers responded to the 600 block of Rudy Park after receiving a dispatch regarding a suspicious vehicle, which investigators described as a white 2023 Kia Soul with a Rhode Island license plate, court records show. The Kia was parked in a back space in front of an apartment building, and there were several people inside and around the suspect vehicle, according to court records. The man identified as the renter of the Kia consented to a police search of the vehicle, which two EPD investigators started to conduct, police said.
Meanwhile, an EPD officer, a Maryland State Police trooper and two Cecil County Sheriff’s Office deputies, including one assigned to the agency’s K9 Unit, began performing pat-down searches of the males whom investigators had linked to that suspect vehicle, police added. Those males were seated on a nearby curb, police noted. “It was then that I heard yelling coming from behind me as (EPD) Officer Chandler along with MSP Trooper Pepe, (CCSO) Deputy Cheezum and K9 Deputy Dowling began to struggle with the suspect, Daijoun Alexander Sconion, when a firearm was discovered on his person.
Daijoun was taken to the ground after attempting to get away from Officer Chandler and the firearm was located and secured,” the listed arresting officer, EPD Ofc. Enos Detweiler, outlines in his statement of probable cause, recalling what occurred while he and EPD Sgt. Candace Pirritano were searching the Kia.
Officers arrested Sconion at the scene, police said. After the search of the Kia and of the arrestee’s companions yielded no evidence, police added, they released the males who had been with Sconion. Investigators described the firearm that had been confiscated from Sconion as a black and tan 9mm Polymer 80 semi-automatic pistol, which lacked a serial number, court records show.
The handgun had a metal Glock 43 slide attached to it and a loaded magazine of 10 bullets, with no round in the chamber, according to court records. During a follow-up interview with the victim in the Bonnie Marie Court incident, the woman told investigators that she was seated inside her 2019 Honda Accord in the driveway of her residence at approximately 1:30 a.m on March 6, when she received a call that her cell phone listed as “No Caller ID,” police said.
The caller, whose voice was familiar to the victim although she was unsure who it was, threatened her, police added. “(The woman) advised that during this time, two males then exited the white Kia and one pointed a green laser at her and was telling her to exit the vehicle, so they could shoot her. (The woman) advised there were multiple people inside the vehicle, between four and five,” according to court records, which further show that the victim indicated she was familiar with them.
The victim also told investigators that she had been communicating with the renter of the Kia “via messages on her phone” before the incident, police said. In addition, the woman told investigators that the renter of the Kia “became upset with her for not hanging with him” and that his “friends had gotten upset with her and had threatened her,” police added. Court records indicate that the victim told investigators that her home security camera yielded footage of the males in front of her residence.
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