3 Black Suspects Arrested for Pointless Slaying of Elderly White Couple

Cecil Daily
March 6, 2015

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MaryAnn Loomis and her husband were both asphyxiated.

Investigators captured the fourth — and possibly last — murder suspect Monday morning in connection with robbery-related slayings of a man and woman found dead inside their home in an Elkton-area neighborhood last week, according to police.

Detectives took Kevin Eric Cooper, 24, into custody about 9:30 a.m. on Monday, confirmed Lt. Michael Holmes, a Cecil County Sheriff’s Office spokesman.

Holmes said Cooper is facing two counts of first-degree murder and numerous other felonies, as are his three co-defendants — Derrick Lamonte Carroll, 25, of the 200 block of Mike Court in Elkton; Ellen R. Lough, 27, of the unit block of Brenda Court in Port Deposit; and Lough’s live-in boyfriend, Azu Nnachi, 25.

With the assistance of Homeland Security Department agents, members of the Maryland State Police Apprehension Team captured Nnachi at a residence in Dundalk without incident about 10 p.m. on Sunday, about 12 hour before investigators arrested Cooper, Holmes reported.

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Earl Herbert Loomis and his wife were both killed so that the subhumans could rob their home.

Investigators arrested Lough on Friday night, police said.

On Wednesday, police added, investigators took Carroll into custody after agents with the U.S. Marshals Office captured him in Trenton, N.J.

Investigators reported that Carroll, Cooper, Lough and Nnachi played roles in the deadly “pre-planned” robbery at the home in the 100 block of West Parkway in Glen Farms — where the bodies of homeowners Earl Herbert Loomis, 79, and his wife, Maryann Loomis, 76, were found about 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday.

Holmes identified Carroll and Cooper as the suspects who entered the Loomis home by means that still remain under investigation. He reported that investigators believe Nnachi and Lough drove Carroll and Cooper to the Loomis home, which all four had targeted, and left after dropping them off.

“This was a premeditated crime, and all four suspects took part in the planning of it,” Holmes explained. “These four suspects were directly involved in the crime. Our investigation is still continuing.”

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Police think they now have the last murder suspect in the case.