Spencer Dillon Hamilton, 27, allegedly confessed to killing his grandmother, Dr. Pauline Titus-Dillon, 87, a former Howard Medical School associate dean
A 27-year-old Maryland man is in custody after allegedly admitting he hid in his grandmother’s bedroom for hours before emerging from a closet and killing her, authorities said.
At about 8 a.m. on Sunday, March 30, Spencer Dillon Hamilton of Potomac walked into the Rockville City Police Station and told police that he had just killed a family member, the Montgomery County Police Department said in a statement.
Officers and fire rescue personnel rushed to Titus-Dillon’s home, where they found Dr. Pauline Yvonne Titus-Dillon, 87, a retired internal medicine doctor at Howard University Hospital, unresponsive in the bathroom…