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Baltimore Police Charge 20-Year-Old With First-Degree Murder in Killing of Teen

Police have not said what led to the shooting.

Overview

  • City police arrested 20-year-old Tyshawn Brown and charged him with first-degree murder in the March 6 killing of 16-year-old Jaythan Day.
  • Officers found Day shot inside a house at West Old Cold Spring Lane and Buchanan Avenue in the Medfield neighborhood, and he later died at a hospital.
  • Investigators have not released a motive or other details about what led to the shooting.
  • Police arrested Brown in the 2400 block of Callow Avenue, according to CBS Baltimore.
  • Day’s father said his son had been living in a home for teenagers in the city while he worked to reunify the family from a recovery program in California.