A first-degree murder indictment has been handed down against William Harcum III in the death of his uncle 62-year old Lee Harcum.
There four counts against the 27-year old Harcum whose uncle was killed while working on one of the family’s watermelon fields in Mardela Springs.
Police say that an argument broke out between the two and that the nephew struck his uncle in the head with a tractor hitch pin.
In addition to the first degree murder charge the Salisbury Daily Times reports that William Harcum faces counts of second-degree murder, first-degree assault and second-degree assault.
Harcum, who is being held in the Wicomico County Detention Center, has an initial court appearance on October 2nd.
