COLUMBIA, Md. (AP) - Police in Maryland have charged a man in the fatal shooting of a man in the parking lot of an apartment complex.
The Baltimore Sun reports that Howard County officers were called to the apartment complex in Columbia just before 5 p.m. Saturday. Police said Simeon Mbuyu Mukuna, 18, of North Potomac, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Shawndel Weems, 23, who lives in one of the apartments, has been charged with first- and second-degree murder, first- and second-degree assault, use of a firearm in a felony and reckless endangerment.
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Weems is being held without bond at the Howard County Detention Center.
Police said Sunday they believe Mukuna was in the area visiting a friend and that Weems and Mukuna did not know each other. Police are still investigating a possible motive.
Weems did not have an attorney listed in electronic court records. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for March 9 in Howard County District Court.
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