This story, originally published at 2:07 p.m. Jan. 18, 2025, was updated at 7:15 p.m. Jan. 19, 2025, to include the names of the victims.
Montgomery County detectives have charged a man with first-degree murder in connection with the Friday morning deaths of a man and a woman in Rockville, according to police and court records.
Kaloyan Dimov Stoev, 25, was taken into custody at noon Friday after police located him in Rockville, police said Friday night in a statement.
On Sunday, police identified the deceased as Rockville residents Marcell Jordan Hebron, 26, and Leilani Marroquin, 27, according to a statement.
According to Montgomery County District Court records, Stoev faces two charges of first-degree murder and two charges of use of a firearm during a violent crime. Stoev, a Derwood resident, is being held without bond, according to court records. A bond review hearing is scheduled for Tuesday. No attorney information was available in court records.
County police told Bethesda Today on Friday afternoon that detectives were investigating the two deaths, which appeared to occur in separate locations, to determine if they were homicides.
The first death investigation began early Friday shortly after 3 a.m. when a county police officer found a body in a vehicle stopped at the intersection of Shady Grove Road and Research Boulevard, according to police.
The location is near the Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove Medical Center at 9901 Medical Center Drive.
An officer on routine patrol came across the stopped vehicle around 3:15 a.m. and found the body inside, police Public Information Officer Carlos Cortes told Bethesda Today.
According to police radio transmissions, the officer noticed a white BMW with “bullet holes in the side of it” and “a subject inside, possibly DOA.” DOA stands for “dead on arrival.”
The second body was discovered around 7:40 a.m. when Rockville City police officers responded to the Sleep Inn Hotel at 2 Research Court for the report of a “deceased person,” Cortes said.
When the officers arrived, they found “a dead adult female with apparent gunshot wounds and shell casings in the parking lot,” police said in Friday night’s statement.
Cortes said that once Rockville police found the second body, officers contacted the county police department to continue the investigation.
County detectives soon determined the two deaths were homicides that were related, according to police. Stoev was identified as a suspect and later taken into custody.
Both bodies were transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore for an autopsy to determine the cause and manner of death, according to police. The names of the deceased were to be released following the proper notification of the next of kin.
