Baltimore County police on Tuesday arrested two men in the September killing of Marcos Molina-Saravia — a shooting that took place at the same Dundalk home where his father was shot and killed six years earlier.
Molina-Saravia, 35, was shot multiple times after two men broke into the Portship Road house in the early morning hours of Sept. 17, police said.
Detectives charged Tavon Frederick, 38, and Jacob Jordan, 21, with first-degree murder, home invasion and other related offenses. The 2019 killing of Molina-Saravia’s father, Jose Saravia, remains unsolved.
Charging documents allege Jordan and Frederick entered the house on the 1800 block of Portship Road, a residential street near the city-county line, through the side door. Police said this showed “intimate knowledge” of the home.
Molina-Saravia’s aunt, who also lives in the home, told investigators that he lived “in fear for his life,” according to charging documents. Other family members told police that Molina-Saravia rarely left the house because he worried about his safety.
Investigators described Molina-Saravia’s killing as a “targeted murder.”
During their investigation, police confirmed that Molina-Saravia’s father, Jose Saravia, was shot and killed in February 2019 outside the same home under “similarly targeted circumstances,” according to charging documents.
That investigation remains open, and no suspects have been charged.
Police allege that Frederick and Jordan fled the Dundalk home on foot after the September shooting and eventually boarded a Maryland Transit Administration bus. Investigators used security footage to track their route and got images of the two men from the MTA bus and a 7-Eleven, according to charging documents.
Police also obtained call records that showed Jordan’s cellphone was in the area of the Dundalk home in the days before the fatal shooting, according to charging documents, which suggests he surveilled the area.
Police also noted that Jordan worked at a Baltimore store run by a woman related to Molina-Saravia.
Frederick and Jordan are being held at the Baltimore County Detention Center without bond. Neither had attorneys listed yet in online court records.
Both have preliminary hearings scheduled for Nov. 26.




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