According to the Howard County Police Department, a 17-year-old Howard High School student was detained and charged with first-degree death on Tuesday in connection with the shooting death of Kendrick McLellan, 26, who was found dead inside a vehicle in a parking lot for Columbia on Saturday morning.
The Ellicott City girl, who the authorities did not name, was arrested at the high class at 12: 45 p. m., Tuesday, and charged as an adult. When he was detained, authorities said he had a loaded weapon in his backpack and that a second think “mains unnamed and outstanding.”
Officers discovered McLellan dying in the pilot’s seat of a vehicle parked in the 8800 wall of Centre Park Drive on Saturday around 2:14 a.m. McLellan, of Baltimore, had several gunshot wounds, authorities said.
Through the investigation, authorities determined that the shooting took place on October 9 at around 5 p.m. at the same spot where McLellan was discovered. The believe and McLellan are believed to have been companions, police said, and the reason for the shooting remains under investigation. The police department had offered a reward of up to$ 5, 000 for information on the shooting.
According to authorities, the suspect was wearing an ankle screen for a past event in another control and was under the watchful eye of the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services.
Police were called to the same location, the 8800 wall of Centre Park Drive, on Saturday night, after a fatal shooting of two teenagers who were thought to be related to McLellan’s.
Officers responded to the location at about 9: 10 p. m. and found a 16-year-old and 17-year-old anguish from gunshot wounds. Both patients, from Elkridge, were transported to Shock Trauma for care and have since been released. The killing, which is next to Howard High School, is thought to have occurred in the parking lot of the shopping center.
Some residents of the area were surprised and concerned about safety in the area as a result of the killings.
Peter Ariola, a native of Columbia and frequent visitor at the Giant in the mall where the two youths were shot, said,” It’s getting too close.”
As individuals wheeled their carriages of foods to vehicles through the breeze on Tuesday, four Howard County Police vehicles were parked in the lot of the shopping center. According to a department spokeswoman, authorities are expanding their presence in the area and conducting more neighborhood checks.
” This is the first killing here, and I’ve been here 47 years, the first time something like this in this place that I know of”, Rick Frye said. ” But, pretty unusual”.
Frye said he frequently retailers at the shopping centre and lives less than a mile away from it. This was the first time he’d heard about situations like these” but close to home” after years of living in the area.
The killings come less than three weeks after a 17-year-old , reportedly targeted another 17-year-old, Angelo Little, shooting and killing him in the food court of The Mall in Columbia.
For Megan Obeid, who works in the area, the crime on Saturday was amazing.
” This does n’t really seem like the type of area where something like this would happen”, Obeid said.
Columbia is a wonderful place, said Ariola, but there are concerns about safety, particularly when Howard County is” supposed to be one of the safest”. He noted the need to “keep the serenity here,” and he would like to see more police officers with well-trained officers patrolling the state.
The department is rewarding information about the teens ‘ non-fatal shooting with a reward of up to$ 3, 000.
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