Murder of UMD coach’s son remains unsolved

It was late in the evening on Sunday, September 3, 2017 when police were called to the 5500 block of Harpers Farm Rd in Howard County.

They found Meiko Locksley, 25, with a gunshot wound on the sidewalk.

A neighbor said she heard the gunshot.

“I didn’t pay attention to it, nothing.” she told a WMAR-2 News reporter at the time. “I thought it was a firecracker.”

Another neighbor saw Locksley through the window, bleeding, with his head in the grass, and called 911.

He was taken to the hospital where Locksley was pronounced dead.

His father, Mike Locksley, was an assistant football coach at Alabama at the time. A little more than a year after his son’s murder, he signed a coaching contract with the University of Maryland Terps.

Three years after Meiko Lockesly’s death, her father has described the depth of the loss.

“He was a great son, caring, but he wasn’t perfect, like no child is,” said Mike Locksley, “a talented, intelligent athlete, gone too soon, but very grateful for the 25 years that we were able to spend with him.”

Although no one has been arrested or charged with the murder of Meiko Locksley, a man pleaded guilty and was sentenced for obstruction of justice related to the murder.

“Specifically for lying to a federal grand jury and law enforcement in connection with a murder,” according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office earlier this year.

HOW YOU CAN HELP:

If you have any information about the murder of Meiko Locksley that could help police solve this crime, please call 410-313-STOP or email [email protected]. Callers can remain anonymous and any information in a cold Howard County case is rewarded up to $30,000.