Shooting Suspect Arrested Outside Home With Weapon In Vehicle

ABINGDON, MD — Police have arrested the suspect wanted in connection to a fatal shooting outside a liquor store Monday afternoon.

The incident happened around 4:08 p.m. Nov. 4 outside the Friendship Wine and Liquors next to a Wawa in the 3500 block of Woodsdale Road. Police arrived on the scene to find Eric Chi Fonong Igwacho, 27, of Bel Air, with a gunshot wound to the lower body. Police said the suspect and victim knew each other.

Igwacho was flown to a local trauma center for treatment of injuries not considered life-threatening, according to the Harford County Sheriff's Office. Detectives identified the suspect, Justin Matthew Schlotterbeck, 41, of Aberdeen. An arrest warrant was obtained by detectives charging Schlotterbeck with attempted first-degree murder and other charges related to the shooting. Deputies found Schlotterbeck inside his vehicle parked in front of his home. He was taken into custody without incident. During a search of his vehicle, detectives found and confiscated a handgun that had been disassembled, police stated.

Anyone with information about the incident or who may have video of the incident is asked to call Detective Moro with the Harford County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division at 443-409-3154.