No bail for teenager charged with shooting and killing 14-year-old in Aberdeen

BEL AIR, Md. – A report of a shooting just before midnight Saturday in the 200 block of Center Deen Avenue in Aberdeen led to police finding an injured teenager in cardiac arrest.

“Our officers responded to the scene and found a 14-year-old male suffering from head trauma,” said Captain Will Reiber of the Aberdeen Police Department. “They took every life-saving measure they could and unfortunately Jai’Den Winchester, a 14-year-old male, passed away.”

Winchester was a freshman football player at Havre de Grace High School, and today at a bond review hearing for the defendant, we learned that the alleged shooter was a junior on that team.

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In total, there were apparently five people in a car when the victim said something to the alleged attacker and he responded before shooting Winchester.

According to the suspect's attorney, two people in that car said the 16-year-old immediately said, “It was an accident.” It was an accident.”

“People who knew both parties involved, both Jai'Den and the accused suspect, so there is familiarity,” Reiber said. “This is a group that knows each other, so conversations are taking place whose validity needs to be determined.”

A lawyer for the murder-accused teen requested house arrest today, but the judge ultimately refused bail.

The state alleges the 16-year-old returned to the car for 10 seconds looking for the gun to get rid of it, which prosecutors say was inconsistent with a person accidentally shooting someone.

The accused teen's parents and brother left Bel Air District Court without comment.