{"id":21227,"date":"2021-01-25T15:47:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T20:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/?p=21227"},"modified":"2021-01-25T15:48:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T20:48:01","slug":"maryland-state-police-continues-search-for-suspect-in-worcester-county-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/2021\/01\/25\/maryland-state-police-continues-search-for-suspect-in-worcester-county-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland State Police Continues Search For Suspect In Worcester County Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(POCOMOKE, MD) \u2013\u00a0 Maryland State Police are continuing to search for the man suspected in the murder of a woman earlier this month in Worcester County.<\/p>\n<p>The District Court Commissioner&#8217;s Office in Worcester County today issued an arrest warrant for William Edward Strand, 52, of Pocomoke City, Maryland. Strand is facing charges of first- and second-degree murder in connection to the death of Lesa Renee White, 48, of Atlantic, Virginia. \u00a0Investigators discovered White on the evening of Jan. 6 in a residence in the 1400 block of Snow Hill Lane in Pocomoke City, Maryland. Maryland State Police Homicide Unit investigators were asked to assume the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Family members reported White missing to the Pocomoke Police Department on Monday, Jan. 4, 2021. According to a preliminary investigation, she was last seen earlier that day in Pocomoke City, Maryland. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore ruled her death a homicide and that she had been fatally shot.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators have been searching for Strand since the beginning of the investigation. There is also a warrant out for his arrest in a separate attempted murder case. He was last seen driving a 2014 Chevy Malibu, similar to the one in the attached photo with Maryland tag No. 5DP3127.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information on this case is asked to contact Maryland State Police at 202-510-2847.<\/p>\n<p>The case remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2021\/01\/William-Strand.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21085\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2021\/01\/William-Strand-300x109.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2021\/01\/William-Strand-300x109.png 300w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2021\/01\/William-Strand.png 516w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt;text-align: center\" align=\"center\">###<\/p>\n<pre style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\">CONTACT: Office of Media Communications, msp.media@maryland.gov<\/span><\/pre>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(POCOMOKE, MD) \u2013\u00a0 Maryland State Police are continuing to search for the man suspected in the murder of a woman earlier this month in Worcester County. The District Court Commissioner&#8217;s Office in Worcester County today issued an arrest warrant for William Edward Strand, 52, of Pocomoke City, Maryland. Strand is facing charges of first- and<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/2021\/01\/25\/maryland-state-police-continues-search-for-suspect-in-worcester-county-murder\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21227"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21229,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21227\/revisions\/21229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}