Brooklyn teen arrested for murder found dead outside funeral home – CBS Baltimore

BALTIMORE (WJZ) – A Brooklyn teenager was arrested Wednesday in the murder of a 19-year-old whose body was found last month behind a funeral home.

Jaden Crowner, 18, was taken into custody in the shooting that killed Devin Scott Freeman, Anne Arundel County Sheriff said. He was charged with first and second degree murder and first and second degree assault, court records show.

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Freeman was found dead around 10 a.m. on February 27 after a funeral home in the 4000 block of the Ritchie Highway in Brooklyn, police said. The body of the 19-year-old youth showed obvious signs of trauma.

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An autopsy later determined his death to be a homicide from a gunshot wound.

Based on their preliminary investigation, detectives identified Crowner as the shooting suspect, police said. After receiving a warrant for his arrest, police arrested him on Wednesday.

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While investigators make an arrest, homicide detectives ask anyone with information on this case to call police at 410-222-4731 or Metro Crime Stoppers at 1-866-7LOCKUP.