Two men allegedly involved in an attempted home invasion in Cockeysville on Halloween night were ordered by a judge to be held without bond at their bail review hearing Thursday afternoon.

Elias Bitar, 22, of Parkville and Aaron Walker Jr., 24, of Baltimore were charged with attempted home invasion and first-degree assault, among other counts.

“The facts of this case are horrendous, exceedingly dangerous, resulting in the death of at least one person,” Judge Leo Ryan Jr. said in district court in Towson.

Police responded to a call in the 10000 block of Greenside Drive around 10:40 p.m. Saturday. A Cockeysville resident had shot three men approaching him in front of his house. Bitar and Walker were wounded in the shooting. A third man died.

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The resident told police that three men, wearing masks and armed with a handgun, had threatened him while he was sitting in his driveway. He told police the men told him and the person he was with to go into the home, with one of the masked men brandishing a gun, according to the charging documents.

After canvassing the neighborhood, officers found Amon Walker, 20, dead on the grounds of Cockeysville Middle School. Officers located Bitar and Walker Jr. seeking treatment at hospitals.

Officers say Bitar told them the three of them drove to Cockeysville together to assault someone, according to court documents. Amon Walker told Bitar he had an issue with someone at the Greenside Drive residence.

They got out of the car at a nearby apartment complex and walked to the Greenside Drive residence. They fled when the resident began shooting.

Police said they recovered a loaded handgun that they believe was in the men’s possession. They also seized the resident’s handgun and a quantity of suspected marijuana during a search of his home. Homicide detectives are investigating.

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The prosecutor said at Thursday’s hearing that both men should be held because the “facts of the case are very concerning.”

Bitar’s attorney asked that he be released on house arrest so he could stay with his mother. “He wants to turn his life around and set a good example for his brother,” the public defender said, adding his family would help him get a job and encourage him to obtain his GED diploma. Bitar has a 2024 conviction for motor vehicle theft and two pending probation violations.

“He was not ringleading the situation,” the attorney said. “He happens to have some friends who make poor decisions, and he happens to make poor decisions by association with those individuals.”

Walker Jr. declined legal representation for the bail review. He does not have a criminal record. He told the judge he was not a danger to public safety.

“I am a hardworking young man. Two jobs, take care of my family,” he said. “Of course I would appear in court. I don’t have any reason to not show up.”