A 17-year-old Baltimore man has been charged in the West Baltimore murders of a Carroll County man and the pregnant woman he was with, after police said they found a text message allegedly implicating him in the shooting.
Davon D. Temple, of the 2500 block of Lauretta Avenue in Baltimore, is charged with two counts of murder, assault and guns violations in the April 23 shootings of Jennifer Morelock, 25, and Jason Woycio, 29.
Woycio was found with multiple gunshot wounds shortly after noon that day in the front passenger seat of a red Pontiac Grand Am parked in the 2500 block of Arunah Avenue, police said.
Morelock, who was about five months pregnant, was lying on her back nearby, with multiple gunshot wounds, police said.
Both were pronounced dead at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center, according to police.
Police got several tips in the days after the shooting from people saying they knew where the gun was, according to charging documents.
Police tracked down Temple five days after the shooting at his home and asked to see his cell phone “to see if there were any gang members” listed in the phone, according to charging documents.
Instead, an officer found a text message that was sent on April 23 reading, according to charging documents, “I killed 2 white people around my way 2day & 1 of them was a woman.”
Temple said he had been in possession of the phone since the day of the murders, when he got it from his sister, the documents say. He didn?t say how the text message got on his phone, the documents state.
A barber shop owner shooed the Grand Am away as it pulled up in front of the store shortly before the shooting that day, thinking they were there to buy drugs, according to charging documents.
A witness saw a man walk up to the passenger side of the car as it was parked on Arunah Avenue, and heard at least four gunshots soon after, the documents state.
