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Man suffering gunshot wound found dead, after his motorcycle crashes in Charles County Man found dead after motorcycle crash in Charles County, Md.
(about 3 hours later)
Police said a man suffered a gunshot wound and was found dead after the motorcycle he was riding ran off the road, overturned and ejected him along Route 5 in Charles County. A Maryland man who state police had previously said might have been a homicide victim was instead killed in a motorcycle crash in Charles County.
There were few details immediately available, and the man was not identified, pending the notification of his family, according to Maryland State Police. Police had previously said that the man died in what they were calling a “potential homicide” and that there was evidence at the scene of the Sunday afternoon crash on Route 5 in Hughesville to indicate that he might have been shot.
Police said they are calling the incident a “potential homicide” at this time. But by mid-day Monday, police had changed their findings.
The incident happened around 3 p.m. Sunday when troopers got a call for a traffic crash along northbound Route 5 near Old Leonardtown Road in Hughsville. In a statement, police said an autopsy had found that the man was “not shot, but died as a result of injuries sustained in the crash.”
When troopers arrived, they found an overturned motorcycle. The driver had been ejected after the vehicle apparently ran off the left side of the road. Rescuers arrived and pronounced the man dead at the scene. The man has been identified as Robert T. Anderson, 44, of Patuxent River, Md. The chief medical examiner’s office in Baltimore found that Anderson died “as a result of multiple blunt force trauma injuries sustained in the crash,” according to the statement from Maryland State Police.
During a forensic examination, officials found “what appeared to be evidence” in the man’s clothing and “trauma to his body indicative of a gunshot wound,” according to a statement from Maryland State Police. Authorities went on to say that the wound that had been found on Anderson at the time of the incident that they thought was a possible gunshot wound was later found to have been “caused by a puncture that occurred during the crash.”
Officials said the man’s body will undergo an autopsy at the medical examiner’s office in Baltimore. It was not immediately known what caused the puncture.
Some areas of the roadway were closed for a time Sunday as investigators dealt with the incident. Police said they had no information about a possible suspect or suspects. The incident began about 2:15 p.m. along Route 5 near Route 231. Police said they received a call about a crash.
Anyone with information is asked to call 301-392-1200. When troopers arrived, they found a 2015 Harley Davidson motorcycle that had run off the left side of the road and hit a guardrail. Police said the driver, later identified as Anderson, was ejected from the motorcycle.
Anderson was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police. A forensic examiner had noticed a “suspicious injury that may have been caused by a gunshot,” police said. Police said there was “trauma” to the man’s body that was “indicative of a gunshot wound.”
But the autopsy determined that Anderson’s death was “an accident as a result of the motor vehicle crash.”
The crash remains under investigation.