A 17-year-old in Maryland has been charged with homicide months after his highschool classmate was reported lacking and turned up lifeless in a shallow creek days later with a number of stab wounds.

Ta’Quawn Deon Henderson, 17, of Germantown, Maryland, was charged by means of an arrest warrant issued on Might 12 with first-degree homicide and turned himself in three days later on the Montgomery County Police 1st District Station late Sunday. He’s being charged as an grownup within the grotesque stabbing demise of his fellow classmate at Northwest Excessive Faculty, 17-year-old Jailyn Jones. 

Jones’ physique was discovered on Jan. 24 in a small creek within the 18900 block of Grotto Lane in Germantown with a number of stab wounds to his head and torso, Montgomery County Police Chief Marcus Jones informed reporters at a press convention Monday. The teenager had been reported lacking days earlier by his mom, and doorbell digicam footage confirmed him leaving his mom’s home round 4:30 p.m. on Jan. 21 to by no means return.

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The police chief defined that articles of clothes, together with a pair of shoes and denims, recovered from the creek contained doable blood proof and had been analyzed by forensics. 

The DNA profile confirmed a mixture of Jones’ blood and a second particular person. All through the course of their investigation, police realized that Jones informed a number of people he was going to satisfy “Tay,” decided to be Henderson. A search warrant obtained Henderson’s DNA, which got here again as a match because the second contributor on the DNA profile. 

Chief Jones stated the investigation is ongoing, and he couldn’t but affirm whether or not the homicide was associated to gang exercise or bullying. The police division is working with the college district. 

On Jan. 24, 2022, the Montgomery County Emergency Communications Middle acquired a name for a male physique present in a wooded space. Officers from the fifth District responded and situated 17-year-old Jailyn Jones within the 18900 block of Grotto Lane in Germantown.
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“We have now seen a rise of violence significantly within the Germantown space lately that’s been actually disturbing to some extent,” the police chief stated, noting a “youthful development” of extra murder suspects being beneath the age of 18 in Montgomery County. “We need to guarantee the general public we’re doing our absolute best to attempt to keep on prime of the knowledge, however once more we want cooperation from the group, and in the event that they know there are some troubling indicators occurring in sure components of our group, with youth who’re once more having kind of these conflicts with one another, we encourage them to contact authorities in order that we are able to do one thing about this earlier than we have now a tragic ending akin to we have now at present.” 

“It is senseless that this younger man has misplaced his life,” he added. 

A search warrant obtained Ta’Quawn Deon Henderson’s DNA pattern. It got here again as a match to garments discovered with Jailyn Jones’ physique, police stated.
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Throughout what Montgomery County State’s Legal professional John McCarthy described as an “emotional listening to,” Montgomery County District Choose John Moffett ordered Henderson held with out bond on the one rely of premeditated first-degree homicide, which holds a most sentence of life imprisonment. 

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“This investigation into this case isn’t over. There are some logical causes for us to consider that there could also be others concerned,” McCarthy informed reporters Monday. “We at all times observe the proof, and we’ll make these determinations. However there are folks on this group – both kids which can be highschool college students within the faculties the place these boys each attended or mother and father who know. And we desperately want folks to put some belief of their group and a few religion within the state’s legal professional’s workplace and the police division on this group to make us a protected place to reside.” 

A preliminary listening to is scheduled for Might 27, and McCarthy’s workplace should take motion earlier than a grand jury earlier than that date.