Arrest made after mom shot dead during trip to take son to Naval Academy

Michelle Cummings, 57, was shot multiple times and killed on June 29. An arrest has been made in her death.

An arrest has been made in the slaying of a Houston mom who was shot and killed while in Maryland to drop off her son at the U.S. Naval Academy, authorities announced Wednesday. Angelo Harrod, a 29-year-old Annapolis man, is accused of shooting Michelle Cummings, 57, while she sat on an Annapolis hotel patio in the early hours of June 29, according to Annapolis police. Cummings was not the intended target, police said. Shots were fired on Pleasant Street and traveled a short distance, hitting Cummings, police said. Cummings and her husband were in Annapolis at the time to bring their son, Midshipman Candidate Leonard Cummings III, to the U.S. Naval Academy, police said.