The fatal shooting of a man in a quiet Glen Burnie neighborhood last summer was a murder-for-hire, according to court documents.

County police Friday charged Dominic Richard Sanchez, 30, of Baltimore, with conspiracy to commit first- and second-degree murder and other related offenses in the July 15 shooting death of Lamont Gordon Jr.

Sanchez was having an affair with Gordon's wife - who has not been named - and allegedly recruited acquaintance Joseph Samuel Serio, 30, of Glen Burnie, to kill Gordon, according to the charging documents.

A witness told police Gordon's wife and Sanchez "had been involved in an...