A man wanted in the death of a Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services agent has been taken into custody in Hurricane, West Virginia. The Montgomery County Department of Police reports that Emanuel Edward Sewell was located on I-64 near Hurricane, West Virginia just after 5 p.m. on Saturday.
Officers with the US Marshals Fugitive Task Force stopped the vehicle and took Sewell into custody. The suspect is accused of killing 33-year-old Davis Martinez who was a six-year employee of the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services.
Martinez had responded to the 2800 block of Terrace Drive in Chevy Chase for a resident check of Sewell who was released from prison in 2021. Martinez did not report back to work. Montgomery County Department of Police officers responded to the location to check on Martinez.
He was found deceased inside. The medical examiner determined that Martinez’s cause of death was homicide having suffered multiple injuries. Sewell is being charged with second-degree murder.
Jay Skelton is an independent crime journalist with a passion for covering the uncovered and the under covered.