Gaithersburg, MD — A Burtonsville man is in a North Carolina jail awaiting extradition to Maryland for allegedly killing his mother.
On Saturday, May 16, 2026, at approximately 5:56 p.m., Montgomery County Department of Police 3rd District officers responded to an apartment in the 3900 block of Blackburn Lane in Burtonsville for a welfare check on resident Glenda Patricia Salamanca Reyes after she did not report to work.
Officers entered the apartment and located the 50-year-old woman in the hallway with apparent trauma to her body. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
The Major Crimes Division Homicide Unit responded and detectives determined that Salamanca Reyes lived with her son, 28-year-old Ricardo Adelso Colato Salamanca. As officers arrived at the scene, Salamanca Reyes’s vehicle, a white 2019 Jeep Compass, was seen leaving the parking lot.
The Jeep Compass was entered into NCIC as a felony vehicle and was tracked traveling southbound on Interstate 95.
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On Sunday, May 17, an autopsy conducted by the Maryland Office of the Chief Medical Examiner determined the cause of death to be multiple stab wounds and the manner of death to be homicide.
That same day, detectives obtained an arrest warrant charging Colato Salamanca with first-degree murder and motor vehicle theft.
In the early morning hours of Monday, May 18, members of the United States Marshals Service Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force and the Carolinas Regional Fugitive Task Force located and arrested Colato Salamanca at a truck stop in Salisbury, North Carolina. He was taken into custody without incident.
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Colato Salamanca remains in custody in North Carolina and is awaiting extradition to Montgomery County.
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