Two Survive Attempted Vehicular Murder/Suicide

"JESSUP, MD - A 67-year-old Silver Spring man has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly trying to kill a woman he lived with and himself by driving his SUV into a trash trailer in Jessup on Sunday, Anne Arundel County police said.

"Henry Hutchins and Carol Carter, 60, who live in the 11000 block of July Drive in Silver Spring, are recovering at Shock Trauma from serious injuries. She is in critical but stable condition; he is in serious but stable condition.

"Police say Hutchins, with Carter in the front passenger seat, drove a 1994 Jeep Cherokee southbound on Brockbridge Road at a high rate of speed, left the roadway and headed in a straight line into a storage area of large trash trailers. The SUV struck one of the trash trailers, causing life-threatening injuries to both occupants.

"Hutchins and Carter had been in a relationship for 15 years, police said. Evidence from the scene and statements made by Hutchins indicate he was trying to kill himself and Carter, said police, who obtained an arrest warrant charging him with first and second-degree murder and first and second-degree assault. He will be served with the warrant after he is released from medical care, they said."

From The Baltimore Sun...