Court Records: Marital Status Prompts Attempted Murder by Rosedale Man

Baltimore County court records state that the Rosedale man charged with attempting to light his girlfriend on fire on Sunday was angry at learning she was married.

Police had initially responded to a complaint from the man—Davon Whye of the 1800 block of Weyburn Road—that his girlfriend was attempting to drive off with his vehicle.

But when they arrived at the unit block of Valley Frost Court in Cockeysville around 7:30 p.m. Sunday, police found a man on the hood of a red Mercury Sable. Locked inside was a woman crying hysterically. They said the man was irate, according to police reports. 

According to police records filed in Baltimore County Circuit Court, the police had the woman step out of the vehicle, and noticed she was covered in an unknown liquid. 

Whye told police the woman had covered herself with motor oil, police said.

The woman, a 28-year-old Baltimore resident, said Whye had shown up at her husband's apartment in the unit block of Sugar Plum Court after she had told him earlier in the day that she was married. 

She said she had brought her children to the Sugar Plum Court apartment to spend time with their father for his birthday.

The woman said Whye was getting loud and causing a scene in front of family members, so she jumped into her tan Ford Expedition and drove away. She said Whye then followed her in his Sable. 

According to charging documents, she turned and parked her vehicle in front of an apartment building in the unit block of Valley Frost Court when she noticed how "crazy" Whye was acting. She said Whye parked his car along the side of the road, screamed at her and took her cell phone and car keys. He proceeded to the rear of the Expedition where he grabbed a bottle of motor oil. 

According to reports, the woman said she tried to lock herself inside the vehicle but was unable to do so because the passenger's side door doesn't lock. Whye got in through that door, started talking to her, and took her prescribed Xanax pills from the glove box, the reports continued.

She said she gave him back the ring he had given her and told him the relationship was over. At that point, she said, Whye doused her with the motor oil, and started throwing lit matches at her in an attempt to set her on fire. 

The woman told police that Whye said, "I'm going to burn you and set your [butt] on fire. And you're not going anywhere until you feel my pain."

The defendant later got out of the Expedition to remove the registration plate, and put it in the trunk of his Sable, according to the woman. She said she then ran out of the Expedition when Whye wasn't looking, jumped into the Sable and locked the doors because she feared for her life, according to police reports.

The woman said the vehicle had been left running, so she attempted to flee but the defendant jumped on to the hood of the car to keep her from getting away, according to police reports. 

Police arrived and conducted a search and found matches and Xanax pills in Whye's shorts. They said Whye's hands were also covered in motor oil, according to court records. 

The police then arrested and charged Whye with attempted murder, assault, false imprisonment, possession of a controlled dangerous substance and theft.