Laurel Man Sentenced to 7 Years for Manslaughter

A Laurel man was sentenced on Thursday at Howard County Circuit Court to seven years in prison for the stabbing death of Robert Lynn Foster, of Savage, in the Midway mobile home park in August.

Robert Timothy Joseph Lee Tasker, 21, was convicted of manslaughter by a Howard County jury  in January.

Tasker stabbed Foster, 46, during an altercation in the mobile home park on Aug. 23, 2012. Officers responding to a call found Foster lying near the entrance of park. After being transported to Laurel Regional Hospital, he was declared dead. 

At the sentencing hearing, Tasker told the court, “I did not intend for this to happen,” according to Wayne Kirwan, spokesperson for the Howard County State’s Attorney’s Office.

Foster’s death was the fourth of four homicides in Howard County in 2012. All four have since been solved.

On April 23, Robert Jarrett, of Elkridge, was convicted of second-degree murder in the 1991 killing of his wife Christine Jarrett. Police uncovered Christine Jarrett’s remains underneath a concrete slab inside a shed on Robert Jarrett’s property in April of 2012.

The other two homicides were those of Mary-Marguerite Kohn, 62, and Brenda Brewington, 59, who were shot to death in May 2012 at the Ellicott City church where they worked. Douglas Franklin Jones, a homeless man who visited the food pantry at the church, was determined to be the killer after police found him with a self-inflicted gun wound in woods behind the church.

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