Crime & Safety

Suspect in His Own Grandparents' Homicides Still in OK

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Matthew Long, the Pikesville man who police suspect of killing his grandparents with dumbells and a knife, is still in Oklahoma.

According to the Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office, Long is still in custody, awaiting extradition to Baltimore County.

On Friday, the sheriff's office released a mugshot of Long.

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He was charged this week with two counts of first-degree murder in the suspicious deaths of his elderly grandparents, Vaughn and Marjorie Pepper of Sudbrook Park.

Long had been living with his grandparents for years, neighbors state.

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On Sept. 10, police from the Pikesville precinct found the Peppers dead of blunt-force and sharp-force trauma in their Olmstead Road home.

Police believe they died Sept. 8.

Police in Oklahoma say Long drove his grandparents' car to a motel in Weatherford on Sept. 9, paid for two days stay, but didn't check out on time.

Police from the Weatherford Police Department found Long on Sept. 11, unresponsive in his motel room, in 'an apparent attempted suicide,' according to Capt. Todd Doyals. Long left a note that said 'I'm so sorry for everything. Please forgive me.'

Long was hospitalized in an Oklahoma City hospital. When he recovered, the Oklahoma City Police Department homicide detectives arrested him on a Baltimore County warrant charging him with two counts of first-degree homicide, according to Capt. Dexter Nelson of the department.

He was then transferred to the custody of the Oklahoma County Sheriff, where he remains in custody, Nelson said Friday.

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