2 teen boys charged with Christmas Eve killing of 14-year-old, Dover police say

Two teens have been charged with the Christmas Eve shooting death of a 14-year-old boy, Dover police said.

The teen boys, ages 13 and 15, have not been named by police, but the Dover department said the two have been charged with the second-degree murder of Juwan Walker. The two were being held at the Stevenson House Detention Center after failing to post $181,000 cash bail.

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Walker was in a parked car on Willis Road, north of North Little Creek Road, about 6:50 p.m. on Tuesday when the two teens approached the vehicle and one fired several rounds at the vehicle before both fled the scene, police said.

Walker was taken to Bayhealth Hospital Kent Campus before being flown to Nemours Children’s Hospital, where he died on Friday, police said.

Armed with a search warrant, Dover’s Special Operations Response Team went to a home in the first block of Stevenson Drive on Saturday and arrested the 13-year-old boy there.

Dover detectives arrested the 15-year-old boy at an apartment in the 400 block of Country Drive.

In addition to the murder charge, each boy also faces charges of first-degree conspiracy, two weapons offenses, reckless endangerment and criminal mischief.

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