Three teenagers have been arrested and charged in last September’s shooting of a rising 16-year-old athlete who was trying to break up a fight outside her Prince George’s County, Maryland, high school.
Prince George’s County police arrested Ramon Richardson, 18, of Lanham; Cameron Anderson, 18 of Landover; and a 17-year-old boy, also of Lanham, who is charged as an adult.
Another 17-year-old boy from Glenarden was arrested and charged as an adult last September, days after the shooting on Sept. 11 that killed Jayda Medrano-Moore outside DuVal High School in Lanham.
Richardson, Anderson and the boy from Glenarden are charged with first- and second-degree murder. The 17-year-old from Lanham is charged with first-degree murder.
Police say Medrano-Moore was walking on Palamar Drive when a fight broke out between two rival groups. Detectives believe that the girl was shot when she tried to intervene.
One witness told police that one of the suspects “both pistol-whipped and shot” Medrano-Moore. An autopsy found her cause of death to be a gunshot wound to the head.
A witness identified the Glenarden teenager, who attended Charles Herbert Flowers High School, as the person charging documents said shot and killed Medrano-Moore.