Shawndel Weems, 23, of Columbia, was found guilty of fatally shooting Simeon Mbuyu Mukuna, an 18-year-old student at Richard Montgomery High School, in February.
Richard Montgomery Student Killed While Helping a Friend
The suspect arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of a Richard Montgomery High School student Feb. 6 told Howard County Police that he shot Simeon Mbuyu Mukuna, because “he felt as though the victim was looking at him with malice and thought the victim was going to try to harm him.”
He also told police that he did not know and had never met Mukuna, of North Potomac.
Mukuna, 18, was in the parking lot of an apartment complex on Monarch Mills Way in Columbia helping a friend with maintenance to his car when he “walked to his vehicle to retrieve a jacket and as he walked back across the parking, a blue vehicle pulled alongside him,” it states in documents from the District Court of Maryland for Howard County.
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According to police, Mukuna was helping a friend fix their car at an apartment complex on Monarch Mills Way Saturday evening.
Witnesses say Mukuna went to get a jacket out of his car. As he walked back across the parking lot, Weems pulled up beside him and fired nearly a dozen shots, killing the teen.
Charging documents say Weems told police he felt Mukuna, the victim, was going to try to harm him.
He also told police he had never seen Mukuna before.
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