A Woodlawn man was arrested and charged with murder Wednesday, more than a month after a roadway shooting in Gwynn Oak left a 48-year-old man dead.

Public records show Benjamin Ruben Rowland is being held without bond at the Baltimore County Detention Center in Towson after a bail review Thursday.

Rowland, 38, is charged with first- and second-degree murder for the April 19 shooting of Charles Richard Meile III, according to court documents.

As of Thursday, no attorney was listed as representing Rowland.

On April 19, at approximately 1:37 a.m., Baltimore County Police officers responded to a car accident along the 1100 block of Ingleside Avenue, according to charging documents. There, they found a Honda Civic that had struck and slid under a tractor-trailer making a delivery — a collision, police said, that sheared off the Civic’s roof. Authorities said they found Meile in the driver’s seat and transferred him to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he died less than an hour later.

Investigators spoke to a passenger in the Civic who said he and Meile were being tailgated across the avenue by a red sedan. When Meile pulled over to let it pass, the sedan pulled alongside them and its driver started arguing with Meile, according to charging documents.

It was not clear in court records what the argument was about. At some point, Meile got out of his car and gunshots went off, the passenger told police. He and Meile scrambled back into the Civic and drove away. Moving down Ingleside Avenue, the passenger said he heard Meile “gurgling” before passing out, according to charging documents. With the driver unconscious, the Civic accelerated and overtook the curb, striking the tractor-trailer outside a 7-Eleven store, police said.

An autopsy the next day determined Meile had died from a gunshot wound to the head. According to charging documents, Baltimore County Police detectives used a mix of surveillance footage, roadside cameras and cellphone data to develop Rowland as a suspect.

Authorities said about 10 minutes before they arrived at the crash scene, a red sedan with tinted windows left a bar along Ingleside Avenue and circled the area. Approximately six minutes later, cameras caught the sedan returning to the avenue before following Meile “closely,” according to charging documents.

The driver of the red sedan shot Meile and fled, circling around some of the same roads as before, police said.

Authorities reviewed surveillance footage from the bar, according to charging documents. From it, a detective “believed” the car was an Acura TLX, police said.

Police conducted a database search for Acura TLXs in the area of Ingleside Avenue and pulled a red vehicle registered to Rowland. Authorities said his Motor Vehicle Administration photograph “matched” the images of the drivers captured at the bar.

Additionally, authorities analyzed call records from Rowland’s phone, which showed the “cell site location data corroborated the red sedan’s movements,” police said. County police arrested Rowland on Wednesday morning, shortly after 4 a.m., according to charging documents, but were unable to find the Acura.

Rowland told detectives that he believed the car had been repossessed because he was behind in payments, but authorities said they believe Rowland is “intentionally distancing himself” from the vehicle.

According to charging documents, since Meile’s death, Rowland has been using a rental vehicle.

After Thursday’s bail review hearing, a preliminary hearing in Rowland’s case is scheduled for the end of June.

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