01-07-2025
2 Howard County men arrested in connection with fatal I-70 shooting in Mount Airy
Maryland State Police arrested two suspects Sunday after a Frederick County shooting on I-70 killed a man and injured two others.
Francisco Javier Sanchez-Juarez, 28, and Jeffrey Josue Diaz, 24, are charged with first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in connection to the incident. Diaz faces two additional firearms charges.
The men were arrested after a shooting in June on eastbound I-70 that killed 20-year-old Eduardo Alexander Alvarado Urrea of Silver Spring, state police said in a Monday news release.
On June 14, state troopers from the Frederick Barrack responded to the 600 block of Lakeview Drive in Mount Airy. Six men were inside a 2018 GMC Sierra pickup truck at the time of the shooting. Urrea, pronounced dead on the scene, was one of them, the release says. Two others were treated for gunshot wounds and three were uninjured.
Online court records list Sanchez-Juarez as being from Elkridge and Diaz from Columbia. Neither man has an attorney listed on Maryland Judiciary's website. Both are being held without bond in Frederick County, with bail reviews scheduled for Tuesday afternoon.
The men were arrested without incident in Howard County, according to the state police.
The investigation remains ongoing. Anyone with information can contact state police's homicide unit at 443-233-0989.
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