Family lawyer: ‘important step’

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2022, Gavin’s sister, Summer Knupp, now 17, picked him up from a friend’s house. She was driving west on Grays Corner Road, back to their mother’s house in Ocean Pines. They stopped, and Gavin allegedly got out of the car to take a picture of a taxidermy deer mount on the side of the road. While crossing the street to return to the car, a vehicle heading east hit Gavin.

Summer Knupp reportedly attempted to perform CPR on Gavin at the scene before first responders took Gavin to Atlantic General Hospital.

He was pronounced dead that night at AGH.

The side view mirror of a black Mercedes sedan made between 20112012 was left at the scene. On July 17, police found a black Mercedes that had damages consistent with the crash in the garage of local businessman Ralph DeAngelus’ home. Maryland State Police took the car for processing.

Mailloux is the son of DeAngelus’s girlfriend, Kearston Frey.

Although Mailloux was never officially declared to be connected to the crime before Friday’s charges, many locals suspected he had been the driver.

DeAngelus made a statement on July 28, saying that he and his businesses — including his partnership in the Matt Ortt Companies restaurants — were not involved in the incident. He claimed to have reached out to authorities the day after the incident, but that police didn’t contact him until the 15th.

According to DeAngelus’s statement, his lawyers had made arrangements with the Maryland State Police on July 15 to drive the Mercedes to the Berlin Barrack. Police executed a search warrant on DeAngelus’ home and seized the car on July 17 for processing.

Matt Ortt, co-founder of Matt Ortt

Companies, announced the dissolution of his partnership with DeAngelus Nov. 7, and apologized for originally defending him.

The Knupp family and locals involved in the Justice for Gavin movement still boycotted restaurants that had been affiliated with DeAngelus and his business partners.

On Monday, before Tiffany Knupp made the Facebook post directed at Mailloux, she posted a picture of the state’s attorney’s request for summons, which asked the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Worcester County to issue a summons for Mailloux. It asked to attach the charging document to the summons when delivered.

“See you soon,” Tiffany Knupp wrote above the picture.

“This [the charges] presents an important step towards accountability for Gavin’s death, but it is just a step in that direction,” Dubovsky said in the statement Monday. “Let there be no confusion — we will not rest until that process is completed, both through this criminal prosecution in addition to pursuing any and all available civil remedies.”