Montgomery County police identified a Gaithersburg resident and a Laurel man as the two people involved in Thursday morning’s apparent murder-suicide shooting in Rockville.
The victim, Civil Jean Calixte, 60, of Gaithersburg, was found suffering from multiple gunshot wounds after officers responded to the report of a shooting at the 14900 block of Southlawn Lane at roughly 7:50 a.m. Thursday, police said Friday in a statement.
After police and Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service (MCFRS) crews rendered aid, Calixte was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.
A witness reported that the suspect, later identified as 53-year-old Dario Villard of Laurel, shot Calixte and fled in a gray Toyota Tacoma pickup truck, the statement said.
Shortly after 8 a.m. Thursday, a responding officer who spotted the truck near the intersection of Avery and Norbeck roads conducted a felony traffic stop and heard a gunshot, according to police.
Villard was found inside the truck with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said. MCFRS crews provided aid and transported Villard to a local hospital where he later died. Police recovered a handgun from inside the truck, the statement said.
Calixte’s death is being investigated as a homicide and Villard’s death as a suicide, police said. The statement did not say where either man lived.
County police spokesperson Shiera Goff said Thursday the two men who died were “known to each other.”
Calixte and Villard were transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, where autopsies were scheduled for Friday.
The incident has been connected to a domestic-related shooting Wednesday evening in Laurel, according to authorities. The victim in that shooting in the 14200 block of Westmeath Drive was in “critical but stable condition” as of Thursday morning, according to Laurel police.
Laurel police were seeking Villard, who was facing an attempted first-degree murder charge related to Wednesday’s shooting, according to the statement.
On Thursday morning, Laurel detectives responded to the Rockville shooting scene and connected the Toyota Tacoma to Wednesday’s shooting.
Laurel police did not respond Friday to MoCo360’s request for comment.