Brian Ward, 17, went missing in September 2020. His body was found in December 2021, and police said he had been shot.
Brandon Nguyen, 24, of Laurel, Md., was charged with second-degree murder and on Monday was ordered detained by a judge. His attorney, Mary Paloger, declined to comment on the case. Nguyen told police that he shot Ward in self-defense, according to the arrest affidavit filed in D.C. Superior Court.For Ward’s family, the lengthy search for the teenager when he was missing along with the lengthy search for his suspected killer after his body was found have been excruciating.
at his house in Laurel and said in the affidavit that he denied owning a black Acura. Nguyen said he recalled Brian Ward from social media but never met him, according to police. The affidavit says police returned to Nguyen’s house in Maryland and questioned his father. The court document says that the father gave “incomplete statements” but told police
Detectives then went back to Nguyen, now living with his grandfather in California. Police said that this time, Nguyen told them he and Brian Ward argued in the black Acura over whether the money or the marijuana should be handed over first, the affidavit says.“It was then the decedent pulled a gray and black gun on him and announced a robbery,” police said in the affidavit, summarizing Nguyen’s account.
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