Harris Guilty of Murder

On February 14, 2025, in Calvert County Circuit Court, Thomas Eugene Harris, II, 28, of Prince Frederick, pleaded guilty to first degree premeditated murder. Sentencing will occur on May 1, 2025, before Judge Mark S. Chandlee.

The charges arose from an incident that occurred on February 15, 2024. Shaquille Quadry Braxton, 30, was found unresponsive in a field near Fairground Road in Prince Frederick. It was determined that he had been stabbed multiple times. He later died from his injuries.

Investigators from the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office soon learned that the victim and Harris had gotten into an argument over the victim’s attempts to visit his child. The mother of the child was in a relationship with Harris. When the victim went to see the child, Harris approached him and stabbed him with a knife. Harris then fled to Prince George’s County with his girlfriend and the child. He later turned himself in to authorities.

Harris has been detained at the Calvert County Detention Center since the date of the incident. He is facing life imprisonment.