Police identify 18-year-old killed in shooting near Annapolis Boys & Girls Club

BALTIMORE - An 18-year-old was shot and killed Friday afternoon near the Boys and Girls Club in Annapolis, police said.

The shooting happened around 2:10 p.m. in the 1900 block of Copeland Street.

Police said Tre'on Hunt, from Glen Burnie, died at the scene.

"I was hoping that when they identified the body it wouldn't be him, but it was," said Janelle Turner, Tre'on's aunt.

Police said there was no threat to the public.

"My detectives are looking at film footage, interviewing potential witnesses, we are canvassing the neighborhood," Annapolis Police Chief Edward Jackson said. "We've had crisis response come out and community outreach come out to try to give the community a sense of calm."

This was the ninth person killed by gun violence in Annapolis this year.

"Annapolis has experienced another senseless act of violence," Annapolis Mayor Gavin Buckley said. "I am making a plea. I am begging the young people who are involved in this kind of violence, I'm begging you to stop because you are ruining the communities that you live in. Please think of your grandma, your granddad, your brothers, your sisters, your mothers and your fathers. You are causing trauma in the communities you are from."

This is the second homicide in the Bywater Mutual Homes neighborhood since July, when a 16-year-old was killed and a 17-year-old was injured in a shooting. 

"I have to live here and I have kids that need to live here safely," Turner said.

The frequency of young lives coming to a violent end is alarming to residents and city leaders alike. 

Alderwoman Sheila Finley says the entire community needs to step up in order to change the trajectory.

"A young man just said he knows who did the last homicide," Finley said. "We need people to step up and help us. My plea is to the residents, to the families, to the relatives, to the community at large, help us convince the young people that we want them to live." 

This shooting happened in the area of a school bus stop. 

Drop off were rerouted for those students as police conducted their investigation.

Anyone with information about this shooting is asked to call police at 410-260-3439 or Metro Crime Stoppers at 1-866-7LOCKUP.