A sixth person has been arrested in the February killing of a 2-year-old in Prince George's County, police announced Wednesday.
Police have charged a 17-year-old boy from Beltsville with first-degree murder and related counts in the fatal shooting of Jeremy Poou-Caceres, who was caught in the crossfire between two groups outside a Langley Park apartment complex on Feb. 8, according to police. Jeremy's mother was also wounded in the shooting.
The 17-year-old has been charged as an adult and is being held without bond at the county jail, police said.
Police earlier arrested and charged five other suspects in the fatal shooting, including a 15-year-old boy from Takoma Park and a 16-year-old boy from Hyattsville, who are both charged as adults with murder, police said. Israel Fuentes Jr., 33, of Lewisdale; Johnny Alejandro Turcios, 28, of Lewisdale; and Nilson Granados-Trejo, 25, of no fixed address are also charged with murder.
Public records do not indicate the status of the teens, whom police did not name because they are juveniles. According to online court records, Fuentes, Turcios and Granados-Trejo are being held without bond. Fuentes and Granados-Trejo were being represented by the public defender's office. A spokesperson for the Office of the Public Defender did not respond to a request for comment. A defense attorney representing Turcios declined to comment Wednesday.
According to an initial investigation, two groups exchanged gunfire near where Jeremy and his mother were walking on Kanawha Street. They were not the intended targets in what a witness described as a shooting tied to a territorial dispute over drug dealing, police and charging documents said.
Police said the 15-year-old and 16-year-old were a part of one group, and Fuentes and Turcios were in the other group. According to charging documents, Granados-Trejo was riding in a stolen vehicle with Fuentes and Turcios during the shooting. He saw Fuentes "shooting a firearm during the incident," the charging documents said.
It was not clear what role police allege the 17-year-old had that day.
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