'Blood stains on the floor': Man who shot victim in Airbnb had been made the beneficiary of his $300K life insurance policy 2 weeks earlier, cops say

Law enforcement successful Maryland believes an idiosyncratic who was made the beneficiary of different man's beingness security argumentation killed him conscionable 2 weeks aboriginal and dumped his assemblage successful a antithetic location.

Bryan Alberto Cazares, 28, faces respective charges, including first- and second-degree murder, successful transportation with the decease of 29-year-old Wilson Estuardo Marroquin Caceros, the Anne Arundel County Police Department announced. Cazares is listed arsenic being held successful the Jennifer Road Detention Center nether nary bail.

According to authorities, connected Aug. 17, 2025, Cazares and Caceros were unneurotic astatine a residence connected the 1600 artifact of Fullerton Road successful Edgewater, Maryland, which is close by the South River astir 30 miles eastbound of Washington, D.C. Investigators judge Cazares killed the unfortunate that day.

The pursuing night, astatine astir 11:30 p.m., the Baltimore Police Department was contacted astir a assemblage connected the 2700 artifact of Manokin Street successful Baltimore, astir 25 miles north. Responding officers recovered Caceros "suffering from aggregate gunshot wounds to the precocious body," and helium was pronounced dead, with an autopsy determining that helium had been killed.

Detectives developed Cazares arsenic a suspect, the Anne Arundel County Police Department said, noting that helium was "known to the victim." They continued to investigate, reportedly uncovering incriminating details.

When detectives spoke with the victim's wife, she told them that "the unfortunate had a $300,000 beingness security policy, for which the beneficiary had been the victim's contiguous family; however, the beneficiary was precocious changed to a antheral named Bryan Cazares," according to tribunal records reviewed by The Baltimore Banner.

Authorities accidental detectives returned to the Edgewater residence wherever the 2 men were purported to person stayed, and it was seemingly an Airbnb rental. Officers got successful interaction with the proprietor of the residence, who told them that idiosyncratic who identified themselves arsenic "Cesasar Ramos" was renting it connected the time successful question.

"The proprietor besides told investigators that aft the occupants vacated, she went to the location and noticed what she believed to beryllium humor stains connected the floor, floorboards and walls of the house," the tribunal documents added. "Furthermore, the proprietor noted that each the towels and a mop were missing from the house."

When the proprietor reached retired to the renter and asked them to wage for the location to beryllium cleaned, she said a "Bryan Cazares" sent her $50 via Chase Zelle, per The Banner.

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Police judge Cazares changeable Caceros to death, past utilized a reddish Jeep Cherokee owned by the victim's woman to transport the assemblage north, wherever helium allegedly dumped it, with detectives claiming information camera footage from a adjacent concern backs this mentation up.

After obtaining a warrant to analyse Cazares' cellphone records, investigators reportedly discovered that the suspect's telephone went the aforesaid way arsenic the reddish Jeep the nighttime that the victim's assemblage was dumped. The tribunal records authorities the fishy contacted detectives to meet, but erstwhile they told him video footage contradicted his communicative astir not being with the unfortunate connected Aug. 17, helium declined to reply much questions.

Caceros is remembered in a GoFundMe ostensibly posted by the parent of his kid arsenic a begetter who "loved our kid profoundly and worked hard to provide, support, and beryllium contiguous successful each mode helium could. His emotion and dedication arsenic a begetter volition everlastingly beryllium remembered and cherished."