Teens Arrested For Attempted Murder of Security Officer
ANNAPOLIS, Md. Aug 9 2018
Annapolis police arrested two teenagers after a private security guard was injured Tuesday in the crossfire of a shooting, police said.
Police said officers were called around 9 p.m. to the 1700 block of Forest Drive on a report of a shooting in the parking lot outside a grocery store.
Officers found a security guard with a graze wound to his chest from a bullet, police said.
He was taken to a hospital with a non-life-threatening injury, police said.
“He was grazed by the bullet, it didn’t strike him straight-on. So he suffered injuries to his chest,” Annapolis Cpl. Amy Miguez said. “This was a man working in uniform. It could have just as easily been a police officer out there, and for no regard to his safety, this young man targeted him and shot him.”
Police said Nelson Poston, 15, of Annapolis, and Kareem Davis, 17, of Washington, were arrested Wednesday and charged as adults with attempted first-degree murder and other related charges.
Police said detectives believe the suspects were together when they encountered a group of males and Poston took out a handgun and shot at them. It is not clear whether Davis or the other group had weapons, police said.
Police said Poston and Davis started to flee. When they ran past the security guard, Poston turned in the guard’s direction and fired at him, grazing his chest, police said.
Police said they have recovered a handgun as the investigation continues.
“This morning, when we were doing the search warrants, we did three different search warrants, we were able to recover one handgun. It’s not clear at this time whether it’s the gun that was used in the shooting. We believe there may have been more weapons involved than just the one that Nelson had,” Miguez said.
Anyone with information is asked to call Detective Chuck Bealefeld at 443-986-5561 or Metro Crime Stoppers at 866-7LOCKUP.
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