Former coworker charged in fatal shooting of Pikesville man outside his home

A Pikesville man was shot and killed in his front yard after receiving a series of early-morning phone calls from a former coworker now charged in his death, according to Baltimore County Police.

The suspect, 44-year-old Michael Eggleston, was arrested Thursday night after detectives tracked him down through phone and license plate records, the charging documents show. Detectives found surveillance footage that shows two men fighting outside the home before flashes of gunfire.

Eggleston worked at Kaiser Permanente in Woodlawn with Tyrone Luster, the man who was shot and later died in a hospital, according to investigators with the Baltimore County Police Department.

Officers responded after Luster’s wife, who woke up to the sounds of gunshots and found her husband on the ground outside, called 911 around 5:25 a.m. on Thursday. She had heard Luster arguing on the phone with someone before the shooting, investigators said. Luster’s two children were inside the home at the time of the shooting, according to court documents.

Detectives said they found numerous unanswered calls on Luster’s phone from Eggleston, starting around 12:36 a.m. until 5:05 a.m., when Luster picked up.

Surveillance footage from a neighbor’s home showed a Nissan SUV registered to Eggleston in front of the house at 5:19 a.m. Detectives said two people are standing in the front yard of the home and seen physically fighting before several flashes appear. One person runs to the SUV before fleeing the scene.

Officers also found pieces of braided black hair, which they believe matches Eggleston’s hair, near Luster in the yard.

Eggleston lives in a home about 350 feet away on the street parallel to Luster’s. Luster’s wife told police Eggleston had visited their home about a month before the shooting.

The two homes are in a suburban neighborhood, and Luster’s family home sits across from Winand Elementary School.

Eggleston was arrested near a Randallstown home about 16 hours after the shooting.

It was not immediately clear if Eggleston had retained a lawyer. He is being held without bond, according to court records.

There have been at least two other homicides in Baltimore County this year.

A 51-year-old Dundalk man was found beaten and unresponsive on Jan. 13 after police said they responded to reports of a burglary. The man, Christopher Stafford, died a month later in the hospital, and his death was ruled a homicide by Maryland’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

The medical examiner’s office also ruled the death of Samuel “Big Sam” Elsworth Brown Jr. a homicide. He died of brain damage sustained in an encounter with Baltimore County Police Officer Derek Hadel on Feb. 16.