A Maryland couple was gunned down while sleeping in bed shortly after midnight Sunday in a hail of four dozen bullets, authorities in Fredrick County said.
33-year-old Crimea Baker and 34-year-old Sean Lange were found deceased by their children at around 7 a.m. the following morning.
“Based on the conversations with the children, it happened about 1:30 in the morning and we believe, based on what the children told us, they hid in the house until morning until they felt safe, to try to figure out what had happened,” said Fredrick County Sheriff Chuck Jenkins.
“I can’t imagine what’s going through their minds. One of the children discovered his mother and the gentleman in the bed, dead, at the time. I can only say their lives are destroyed, is upside-down right now.”
Baker’s four children were at the home at the time of the shooting but were not harmed. She shared one of the children with Lange.
“This was really a heinous, targeted double murder, a crime of rage and anger,” the sheriff said.
“This is the type of crime that shocks the conscience of everyone in Frederick County.”
