Brooklyn Park Man Dies After Driver Crashes Into His Home: Police

BROOKLYN PARK, MD — A 68-year-old Brooklyn Park man died after a suspected impaired driver crashed into his home early Saturday morning, Anne Arundel County Police confirm.

Christopher Davis, 49, of Baltimore faces charges including manslaughter by vehicle, failure to return to or remain at the scene of an accident that results in death, and homicide by vehicle while impaired by drugs.

Police say Davis was driving south on Johnson Street in around 3 a.m. Saturday. Preliminary investigation indicates Davis failed to stop for the stop sign at the intersection of Johnson Street and Walton Avenue, continued southbound, and jumped a curb.

The car continued into a front yard on Walton Avenue and into a home, striking resident Gerald Patrick Keogh Jr. and pinning him between the car and the interior walls. Another resident was also inside the home.

Davis allegedly left his car and began traveling towards Ritchie Highway on foot. Police apprehended him without incident.

A fire rescue unit worked to get Keogh Jr. out of the wreckage. He was pronounced dead at the R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.

Drugs and/or alcohol "do appear to be a factor in this crash," according to investigators, who said it was caused by Davis failing to stop for a stop sign. He was not listed as injured in the police report.