POTOMAC, Md. (TCN) — A 27-year-old man was taken into custody on suspicion of murder after he allegedly confessed to killing his grandmother over the weekend.
On Sunday, March 30, just after 8 a.m., Spencer Hamilton reportedly walked into the Montgomery County Police Department’s Rockville City station and said he killed one of his family members. Emergency responders went to a home on Tribunal Lane and found 87-year-old Pauline Titus-Dillon in a bathroom. Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service officials declared her deceased at the scene.
Detectives from the department’s Major Crimes Unit responded and identified Hamilton as the suspect in Titus-Dillon’s death. He was arrested at the police station and charged with first-degree murder.
According to WTTG-TV, Hamilton allegedly hid in his grandmother’s closet until about 4 a.m. when she came back to her room from the bathroom. He reportedly stabbed her in the face and back, then strangled and punched her several times. Afterward, he allegedly moved her body to the bathroom and tried to clean up the area. He allegedly left her house with her phone, credit card, and laptop.
WTTG reports Hamilton said at his court hearing Monday that he planned on representing himself even though the judge, defense attorney, and his family tried to advise him otherwise.