Fourth suspect charged in Montgomery Village homicide

Montgomery County Police have charged a fourth suspect in the November 2 homicide of Roberto Gutierrez Cruz in Montgomery Village. Edwin E. Reyes-Martinez, 18, of the unit block of Whetstone Drive in Montgomery Village has been charged with one count of being an accessory after the fact to first-degree murder, and with one count of possession of a handgun.

On November 2 around 12:42 p.m., 6th District officers and Fire and Rescue personnel responded to the woods behind the 18200 block of Contour Road after the report of a possibly injured person. A passerby had called 911. Officers located the victim, 22-year-old Roberto Gutierrez Cruz, of Lost Knife Road in Montgomery Village, deceased on the ground.

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled the manner of Cruz’s death a homicide and the cause of his death as multiple gunshot wounds. Three suspects were subsequently identified and charged in the case.

In the course of their investigation, detectives determined that Reyes-Martinez was involved in concealing the gun after the murder the murder. Although he was a minor at the time of the incident, he has been charged as an adult. Police have declined to release his mugshot, however.