14-Year-Old Football Player Fatally Shot In Harford Co.: Police

ABERDEEN, MD — A 14-year-old was shot and killed Saturday in Aberdeen, according to police.

Authorities responded shortly before midnight to the 200 block of Center Deen Avenue for a reported shooting and found Jai’den Alexander Winchester with a gunshot wound to the head and in cardiac arrest, police said, adding Winchester was pronounced dead at the scene.

Winchester was a ninth-grader at Havre de Grace High School, where he played junior varsity football, according to The Baltimore Banner, which reported the shooting is being investigated as a homicide.

Anyone with information in the Winchester shooting is asked to contact police at 410-272-2121 or clightner@aberdeenmd.gov.

Winchester is the second Harford County Public Schools student to be killed by gun violence this academic year. On Sept. 6, 15-year-old Warren Curtis Grant was shot by another student the first week Joppatowne High School was back in session in an on-campus bathroom.

Jaylen Rushawn Prince, 16, of Edgewood, was charged as an adult in the death of Grant of Edgewood.

Prince has been charged as an adult with murder, first- and second-degree assault and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, authorities said. He is being held at the Harford County Detention Center and is awaiting his initial court appearance.