A second teenager has been arrested in Baltimore County this week and charged as an adult related to an attempted robbery and shooting in Rodgers Forge.
A 15-year-old was arrested Wednesday and a 16-year-old was arrested Thursday for the shooting of 50-year-old Mark McKenzie, a husband, father of three and beloved youth sports coach.
Both teens face charges of attempted first-degree murder in adult court. The 16-year-old also is charged with one count of first-degree assault and one count of using a firearm in a crime of violence, according to court documents.
Shortly after 11:30 a.m. Sept. 13, Baltimore County Police officers responded to an alley behind the 400 block of Dunkirk Road for reports of a shooting and found McKenzie with a gunshot wound. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition, and police said Thursday that he remains hospitalized.
According to charging documents for the 15-year-old, surveillance footage showed McKenzie cleaning the back of his car when someone raised a handgun and pointed it at his head. After a struggle, McKenzie stumbled into an alley, and the teen fired a single shot, according to the documents. Police matched the teen’s sweatshirt to one worn by a suspect in a Sept. 11 armed robbery on a Maryland Transit Administration bus.
MTA detectives told investigators that the person robbed on the bus had been told to send money to a CashApp account that police linked to the 15-year-old’s parent. Staff at a Baltimore City elementary and middle school identified the teen in an MTA armed robbery wanted poster as the person in the “distinctive” sweatshirt, police wrote in charging documents.
On Tuesday, members of the Baltimore County Criminal Apprehension Support Team watched the 15-year-old leave a home and get into the back of a rideshare vehicle, according to charging documents for the 16-year-old. Police pulled the car over and took the teen to police headquarters.
Detectives also executed a search and seizure warrant on a home where the younger teen had stayed. A woman there gave police a name for the 16-year-old, who investigators believe also was involved in the Sept. 11 bus incident, according to charging documents.
The 16-year-old’s aunt and a residential adviser from a group home where he had stayed separately identified him to police in a photo from the bus robbery.
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