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Major Kinchen Wanted In Fatal Shooting Of Breonna Rogers In Baltimore's Druid Hill Park In Custody

BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- During a press conference on public safety Wednesday morning, Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison announced the arrests of multiple suspects in various crime in the city.

One of those arrested is 30-year-old Major Kinchen of the 3600 block of Liberty Heights Avenue. Kinchen was wanted in the Jan. 19 murder of 29-year-old Breonna Rogers in Druid Hill Park.

Officers responded to the 3100 block of Swann Drive at 7:53 p.m. for a report of an unresponsive person. There, they found Rogers suffering from a gunshot wound to the neck. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

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Kinchen is being held at Central Booking on unrelated Felon in Possession of a Handgun charge.

Members of the BPD Warrant Task Force will serve Kinchen with a murder warrant soon.

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