Man faces life in prison for February 2024 murder of Germantown man
Defendants left the body of Delondre Sawyer in a wooded area in Gaithersburg after the killing
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Elia GriffinJuly 10, 2026 11:51 a.m.
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A 39-year-old man is facing the potential of life in prison without parole after a Montgomery County jury convicted him of the February 2024 murder of Delondre Sawyer, 35, of Germantown, the Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office said Thursday in a statement.
Following a nine-day trial, Quinnton Eric Brown, of no known address, was convicted on charges of first-degree murder, armed robbery, conspiracy to commit armed robbery, armed carjacking, conspiracy to commit armed carjacking and firearm-related offenses, according to the statement.
Brown and two others – DeAngelo McRoy, 29, and Alicia Carson-Brown, 27 – were arrested in connection with the homicide in March 2024. Prosecutors believe Brown was the shooter, the statement said.
Brown faces the possibility of life in prison without parole plus an additional 135 years at a sentencing hearing set for Oct. 1, according to the statement.
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Nicole Agama, an attorney for Brown, did not immediately respond to Bethesda Today’s phone call request for comment on Friday morning.
The case revolves around the homicide of Sawyer, whose body was found by police on the morning of Feb. 8, 2024, in a wooded area on Game Preserve Road in Gaithersburg, the state’s attorney’s office said. Sawyer had a gunshot wound to the back of his head, according to the office.
According to that statement, Brown was driving a car with Brown, McRoy and Carson-Brown as passengers when he was shot and killed. After the shooting, Brown’s body was left in the woods.
The homicide
According to the state’s attorney’s office, Brown was shot on Feb. 7, 2024, while sitting in the driver’s seat of his mother’s 2013 gold Honda Accord. Charging documents for Brown, which outlined the homicide investigation, said that Sawyer was last seen on surveillance footage at 3:55 a.m. on Feb. 7 driving the Honda Accord away from his mother’s residence.
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At about 6:31 a.m., Carson-Brown and McRoy were seen on surveillance video at a Gaithersburg gas station exiting and entering the gold Accord and then driving away, charging documents state.
According to the state’s attorney’s office, before the homicide, Sawyer met with Brown, McRoy and Carson-Brown at an apartment in the 7900 block of Spiceberry Circle in Germantown. McRoy asked Sawyer to drive the group elsewhere and while driving, Brown fired one shot to the back of Sawyer’s head, prosecutors said.
“The victim was stripped naked, dragged into the wooded area, and left there,” the state’s attorney’s office said.
After the homicide, Sawyer’s vehicle and personal belongings, including a backpack and credit cards, were taken, according to prosecutors and charging documents. The three defendants used Sawyer’s credit cards to make purchases at multiple establishments.
The next morning, county police responded around 7 a.m. to a report of a “deceased individual” in the woods in the 11200 block of Game Preserve Road in Gaithersburg and found Sawyer’s body, charging documents said.
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Sawyer’s body was transported to the state’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore and an autopsy revealed a gunshot wound, police said. His death was ruled a homicide.
When police recovered Sawyer’s vehicle on Feb. 8 in the 19000 block of Breezedale Lane in Germantown, Brown was standing next to the Honda Accord, which was parked and had a passenger door open, according to the state’s attorney’s office. Charging documents state that Brown told an officer that he was “waiting for somebody” and “cleaning the car out.” He said the car belonged to his sister.
When the officer went to his patrol car to run the Honda’s registration plate, Brown walked away from the vehicle and did not return, charging documents state. A forensic investigation of the vehicle found blood visible on and in the vehicle as well as several pieces of clothing.
After her arrest, in a March 2024 interview with a detective at the county police headquarters in Gaithersburg, Carson-Brown admitted to being in the Honda Accord with Brown and McRoy. Carson-Brown told detectives that while inside the car, she heard a “loud boom” and “observed blood in the vehicle.”
Carson-Brown did not tell police who shot Sawyer but stated that it wasn’t her or McRoy, according to charging documents. In February 2025, Carson-Brown pleaded guilty to accessory-after-the-fact to first-degree murder.
Following a 12-day trial in October, a jury convicted McRoy on charges of first-degree murder as well as use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, armed carjacking and armed robbery. McRoy is expected to be sentenced in Montgomery County Circuit Court on Aug. 7.
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Originally published at Bethesdamagazine