Autopsy Report Reveals McDevitt Was Speeding, Drinking

Brian McDevitt, a Pasadena man whose death earlier this year , had alcohol in his system and was excessively speeding when the car he was driving hit another car on Fort Smallwood Road, according to the Maryland Gazette.

McDevitt was the co-founder of Anne Arundel Breaking News and Events, a popular local Facebook page and web page.

McDevitt, 32, was traveling between 99 and 113 mph at the time of the accident and had a blood-alcohol content of between .05 and .07 percent, according to documents obtained by the Gazette.

The posted speed on the portion of Fort Smallwood Road where McDevitt crashed is 50 mph and Maryland law states that a motorist can be charged with driving under the influence of alcohol with a blood-alcohol content of .08 percent.

On Jan. 28, officers responded to a call at about 12:45 a.m. and said they found McDevitt’s Acura several hundred feet away from the BMW. It was off the road and on its roof.

According to police, when his Acura went out of control and began to rotate counterclockwise crossing the double yellow lane lines into the path of a 1997 BMW 528i.

The right rear of McDevitt’s Acura hit the front of the BMW. The Acura continued for several hundred feet through a mailbox and off the roadway where it overturned, ejecting the driver and coming to rest on its roof, according to the report.

Brandon Patrick O’Malley, 18, of Pasadena was the driver of the BMW and Spencer Anthony Blake, 19, of the 7800 block of Leonardo Court in Pasadena was a passenger in the front seat, according to the report. Both suffered minor injuries.

O’Malley’s father, Tim, told the Gazette that the teens are “lucky to be alive.”

Read the full details on McDevitt's official autopsy and toxicology reports.