Article: Police Say Md. Man Had Fiancee Killed, Blamed Black Robber

A 23-year-old Pasadena, Md., man who told police he was shot and his fiancee slain during a robbery near a Baltimore park was charged yesterday with hiring the gunman to kill her and then wound him to cover up the crime.

Robert Harris and the alleged trigger man, Russell Brill, 22, of Baltimore, were charged with first-degree murder in the death of Theresa McCloud, said Rob Weinhold, a Baltimore police spokesman.

McCloud died Friday after she was shot six times during what Harris said was a robbery in the parking lot of a southwest Baltimore park.

The couple were scheduled to be married in September.

Harris at first told police that a black man wearing a camouflage jacket ...

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