
- An 87-year-old Maryland man named Irwin Joseph Dickstein was charged with first-degree and second-degree murder in the shooting death of his 63-year-old roommate, Michael Roy Bushnell.
- Neighbors and court documents indicate the shooting occurred after an argument escalated over Dickstein switching off their home's electricity to repair an outlet.
- Dickstein was turned in after confessing the crime to an associate pastor at the Frederick Christian Fellowship, who alerted law enforcement.
- Police recovered a handgun from a case in the trunk of a vehicle used by a driver who brought Dickstein to the church.
- Dickstein is being held without bail at the Frederick County Adult Detention Center pending a court-ordered competency evaluation.
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