Crime & Safety
19-Year-Old Laurel Man Charged With Fatally Shooting Teen Girl
Seventeen-year-old Kymici Brown was rushed to the hospital but died from the gunshot wound.
Police have arrested a 19-year-old man from Laurel and charged him with homicide for allegedly shooting and killing a 17-year-old girl in Annapolis.
On Monday, June 6 at noon, Annapolis police officers responded to a home in the 1300 block of Tyler Avenue.
Once inside the home, officers located 17-year-old Kymici Brown, suffering from a gunshot wound. She was transported to Anne Arundel Medical Center, but later died.
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Ryan Surgeon, 19, of Laurel, was inside the home when officers arrived. He was arrested and charged with first- and second-degree murder, as well as other lesser charges.
Police said Surgeon and Brown knew each other before the shooting.
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Surgeon is being held at the Jennifer Road Detention Center on $1.5-million bond.
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