ELKTON — A man is charged with attempted murder and other offenses after he allegedly entered a neighboring residence in Elkton on Monday and beat a man and a woman with an aluminum baseball bat, knocking the male into unconsciousness briefly and apparently breaking bones in the limbs of both victims, according to police and Cecil County District Court records.
Investigators identified the suspect as Willie D. Pipkin, who turns 48 on Wednesday, court records show.
As of Tuesday, investigators had not released a motive for the attack, which occurred at approximately 3:15 p.m. Monday inside a residence in the 200 block of Hollingsworth Manor, the same block on which the suspect lives.
It marked the second, violent home invasion involving neighbors in Elkton within approximately a 22-hour period.
Unrelated to the Hollingsworth Manor incident, a 36-year-old man is facing numerous charges after he allegedly barged into a neighboring residence in the Delancy Village community before 5 a.m. Sunday and raped a female occupant on a couch — before fleeing when another occupant caught him in the act. (Hollingsworth Manor is approximately three and a half miles west of Delancy Village, and both neighborhoods are a short distance off Route 40.)
In the latest home invasion incident, Elkton Police Department patrol officers and members of the agency’s Street Level Crimes Unit rushed to a residence in the 200 block of Hollingsworth Manor at about 3:20 p.m. Monday, after receiving a dispatch regarding a home invasion in which the suspect forced open the front door, destroying the frame, and then assaulted a man and a woman after barging into the dwelling, police reported.
Ambulance crews drove the two victims to an area hospital for medical treatment, according to court records, which indicate that the left arms and wrists of the both victims appeared to be broken, based on observations by officers. Updated information regarding the victims’ medical conditions was unavailable, as of Tuesday afternoon.
After forcing his way into the residence, the suspect charged the woman in the kitchen and struck her left arm with the bat, according to the charging document. Then the suspect went into the living room, where he hit the man multiple times in the left arm and back with the bat, causing that victim to lose consciousness, court records allege.
The charging document indicates that the assailant attempted to render aid to the unconscious man, sharply contrasting the alleged violent attack that had occurred moments earlier. “When (the male victim) regained consciousness, (the suspect) was attempting to give him mouth to mouth (CPR),” according to court records.
When the man regained consciousness, the suspect fled from the residence, police said. Bystanders saw the suspect — still armed with the bat — running from that residence, police added. Officers arrested the suspect later that afternoon after spotting him walking on Road 12, a short distance from his residence and from residence where the attack occurred, police reported.
After officers had arrested the suspect, the two victims identified Pipkin as the man who had beaten them with the baseball bat, according to court records.
Investigators later confiscated the aluminum bat they believe Pipkin used in the assaults, after finding it under the front-door stoop of Pipkin’s residence, court records show.
Pipkin is facing eight criminal charges, including attempted second-degree murder, which is a felony that is punishable by up to 40 years in prison if convicted, according to court records. Other charges filed against Pipkin include home invasion and two counts of first-degree assault, with each of those counts carrying a maximum 25-year sentence if convicted, court records show.
He remained in the Cecil County Detention Center on no bond Tuesday, awaiting a bail review hearing that is scheduled for Wednesday, according to court records.
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