By Elisha Fieldstadt, Tim Fitzsimons and Lindsey Pipia -
NBC News
Four people, including two minors, have been killed in the search for a former Baltimore County police officer accused of kidnapping his young daughters and committing a series of armed crimes, Maryland authorities said Thursday night.
The four people, who have not been identified, were found with apparent gunshot wounds
in a vehicle that crashed into a fence during a chase in Smithsburg, Maryland, authorities said.
Officers attempted to stop a car that "matched the description of a suspicious vehicle involved in an incident in Baltimore County," Elena Russo, a public information officer for the Maryland State Police, explained Thursday night.
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Inside the car,
police found a woman as a driver, an adult man and a minor in the back seat
, who were pronounced dead at the scene.
A second minor was pronounced dead after being transferred to a hospital, Russo said.
"The police believe they know who the people are, however, because it is still an active investigation of the crime scene,
we cannot reveal the identity of the occupants of the vehicle,
" Russo said, adding that the police believe that the deceased "They may be related to two other incidents."
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Robert Vicosa and Tia Bynum, former employees of the Baltimore County Police Department, were charged this week with taking his two young daughters while carrying out crimes in Maryland and Pennsylvania.
Police believe
Vicosa abducted his daughters, Giana, 6, and Aaminah, 7, and kept them with him while he committed a series
of car
robberies
at gunpoint.
Vicosa's wife, from whom he was separated, assured the police that she had been attacked on Sunday by her ex-partner, who
held her at gunpoint and fled with the girls
, according to authorities and WBAL, an affiliate of Telemundo's sister network. , NBC.
Police said
Vicosa
, armed,
abducted a man Wednesday in the Cockeysville area
, about 14 miles north of Baltimore.
Vicosa and Bynum took the man away by car and forced him to drive to various locations before releasing him safely, Hyatt added.
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On Tuesday, Vicosa and the girls were also spotted in Felten, Pennsylvania, just over the Maryland border.
One woman told WBAL that he was hiding in her mobile home and when she discovered him, she pointed a gun at him.
“He wanted to tie me up.
'Is there something in the motorhome to tie you up?' He asked.
I said, 'No, I don't.'
And I replied: 'Take my car' (and) I took my keys and gave them to him, ”said the woman, whom the WBAL did not identify.
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He told her that he didn't like the way his wife's family was treating their daughters and for a moment left them alone with her.
"I asked him, 'Is your dad going to hurt me?' She replied, 'No, my dad is good,' ”
said the woman.
In the end, the three of them left.
Bynum worked in the department's criminal investigations office and was fired on Wednesday, while
Vicosa was a sergeant before being relegated to an officer and finally being fired
earlier this year.
Vicosa, who previously called himself Robert Brown, had been accused by three female officers of "watching inappropriate videos in his presence, making inappropriate comments of a sexual nature and leering," according to department records.
