A Glen Burnie teenager has been charged with murder after the man he allegedly beat with a baseball bat died this past week from head injuries, Anne Arundel police said Monday.
Christian John Schellenschlager, 15, of St. James Drive in Glen Burnie, was arrested Friday in the killing of Bryan Myers, 49, of no fixed address, police said.
Schellenschlager is charged as an adult with first- and second-degree murder, firs-degree assault and reckless endangerment, according to court records.
He is being held without bond at the Anne Arundel Detention Center on Jennifer Road in Parole.
Myers, who had been staying with family members, was found lying in the street about 5:10 p.m. April 29 near the teen?s house at the intersection of St. James and Nottingham drives, police said.
Myers told officers that he was hit in the head with a baseball bat, and police found a black and green Louisville Slugger aluminum bat near the scene.
Myers was taken to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore City where he died May 14.
The following day, the medical examiner said Myers died of blunt force trauma with complications and ruled the death a homicide, police said.
Witnesses at the scene in April identified Schellenschlager as the attacker, police said, and told them about conversations they?d had with him after the assault.
Police said Myers got into an altercation with a group of juveniles during which Schellenschlager left to get a bat. The teen hid the bat and snuck up behind Myers, and when he wasn?t looking, Schellenschlager hit him over the head with the weapon and ran away, police said.
Police do not know what caused the argument.
Myers? death marked the third homicide in Anne Arundel this year.
Frank Jones, 38, of Tyler Avenue in Annapolis, was found shot to death Feb. 20 along the 200 block Brick Church Road in Davidsonville. His death remains unsolved.
Derrin Thomas, 27, of Baltimore City, was found dead in a Ford truck in the 7700 block of Rotherham Drive in Hanover. Marvin Craig Little was charged Jan. 18. in connection with that homicide.
