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Vincent Anthony Fisher, II, 49, has been convicted following a near two-week trial for his role in a fatal incident in March 2022 that resulted in the deaths of Rashawn Cline and Dashawn Cline.
First responders in Charles County were called on March 31, 2022, to a townhome in Waldorf that was fully engulfed in flames with Fisher outside suffering from injuries that took place from an assault that happened before the fire.
Crews were able to extinguish the fire, where they found the 27-year-old Rashawn Cline and her 18-month-old daughter, Dashawn Cline, in an upstairs bedroom.
Prosecutors say that Fisher, who lived at the home, got into an altercation with two other men - one of whom lived there - before the fire started.
The incident began inside the townhome but continued outside after Fisher jumped out of his second-story window. When the fight was over, Fisher remained at the house with the victims while the other men left.
Soon after that, Fisher intentionally started a fire on a mattress in the living room and went outside. The fire then extended to the rest of the residence, which was deemed a complete loss.
Investigators made note that video footage from a neighbor’s house captured Fisher walking toward the home before the fire started. He was also caught with two lighters when he was arrested, and there was PCP in his system.
Witnesses said that Fisher was told by another resident that he could no longer live at the townhome due to his drug use, and he started the fire on the last night he could stay at the residence.
Fisher was convicted following a 10-day trial of two counts each of first-degree arson and second-degree murder. He faces more than a century in prison when he is sentenced in December.
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