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No bail for teen accused of shooting and killing 14-year-old in Aberdeen

No bail for teen accused of shooting and killing 14-year-old in Aberdeen

BEL AIR, Md. – A report of a shooting just before midnight Saturday in the 200 block of Center Deen Avenue in Aberdeen led police to an injured teenager in cardiac arrest.

“Our officers arrived on scene and found a 14-year-old male with head trauma,” said Capt. Will Reiber of the Aberdeen Police Department. “They took every lifesaving measure they could and unfortunately, Jai’Den Winchester, a 14-year-old male has passed away.”

Winchester was a freshman football player at Havre de Grace High School, and today, during a bail hearing for the suspect, we learned that the alleged shooter was a junior on that team.

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A total of five people were apparently in a car when the victim said something to the alleged attacker and he responded in kind before shooting Winchester.

According to the suspect’s attorney, two people in that car said the 16-year-old immediately said, “It was an accident.” it was an accident.”

“Individuals who knew both those involved, both Jai’Den and the suspect who was charged, so there is familiarity,” Reiber said. “This is a group that knows each other, so there are conversations taking place whose validity needs to be established. .”

A lawyer for the teenager accused of the murder today asked for house arrest, but the judge ultimately denied bail.

The state alleges the 16-year-old returned to the car for 10 seconds and searched for the gun to get rid of it, which prosecutors said was inconsistent with a person accidentally shooting someone.

The accused teen’s parents and brother left the district court in Bel Air without comment.