Police: Cross-Dressers Stole Vehicle from Elkridge Motel Before NSA Shootout

Howard County police confirmed Tuesday that the SUV involved in a deadly showdown at the NSA campus Monday morning was stolen from an Elkridge motel by two cross-dressing men.

A 60-year-old Baltimore man who owned the Ford SUV said he picked up two men dressed as women in Baltimore City and drove them to the Terrace Motel in Elkridge, according to a statement from the Howard County Police Department.

Police said he checked into the motel in the 6200 block of Washington Boulevard at approximately 7:30 a.m.

“After an hour, the men left the room and took the victim’s vehicle,” the statement from police said. “Investigators working with the FBI have learned that the two suspects in the same SUV later drove onto the grounds at Ft. Meade.”

Just before 9 a.m., the Ford sped toward the NSA security gate and rammed it as well as an NSA police vehicle, prompting gunfire that led to the death of one suspect (who has not been identified) and the injury of another, identified as Kevin Fleming, 20, of Baltimore, according to WBAL.

According to WJZ, cocaine was found inside the Ford Escape.

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Howard County police said the man whose car was stolen told authorities he did not know why the men were dressed as women.

He reported the vehicle stolen at 8:30 a.m., according to the Howard County Police Department.

The nature of the relationship among the men and why they were at the motel in Elkridge was unknown, according to police; Howard County Police Department spokeswoman Sherry Llewellyn told Patch it was “undetermined” as of Tuesday morning whether drugs or prostitution were involved.

The investigation is continuing, with the FBI as the lead agency, according to the Howard County Police Department.