ELKRIDGE, MD – Police have arrested and charged Erik Sean Meister, 43 with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of Dereck Thurman Williams, 60, at the Elkridge Econo Lodge earlier this week.
Howard County police officers responded to a report of a deceased man inside a room at the Econo Lodge in the 5800 block of Bonnie View Lane in Elkridge.
“Through investigation, detectives identified Meister, who had been in the room with Williams before the homicide occurred, as the suspect. Officers spotted Meister walking on Rowanberry Drive and took him into custody without incident. He is being held at the Howard County Detention Center on no bond,” police said.