Around 8:30 p.m. Aug. 27, Glen Stewart, 17, told his aunt Anniebell he?d be right back ? and left to get a Sprite from the corner store. It was the last time she saw him alive.
Five hours later, Baltimore County police found his burning body in a wooded area of Nova Park in Woodlawn, about an eight-minute drive from that corner store in the Northwest Baltimore neighborhood where Stewart lived.
He did not have a car.
“No one deserves to die like this ? not even an animal,” Anniebell Stewart, 22, said of her nephew?s death.
“I wake up every day and Glen still isn?t there. This has been the worst year for my whole family. It?s such a traumatic loss.”
Now the grieving aunt is crying out for witnesses to come forward with information about Glen Stewart?s killing.
“Whoever did this obviously was a cold-hearted individual who has no morals,” Stewart said.
Glen Stewart was a funny, likable teenager who was pursing his GED after attending Northwestern High School, his aunt said.
She believes Stewart was killed by someone he knew ? and that other people in the Northwest Baltimore community know what happened to him.
“This case isn?t just another statistic, another number,” Anniebell Stewart said. “He was a person. He was a family member. He was a child.”
Baltimore County police spokesman Cpl. Mike Hill said he didn?t know whether Stewart was killed in Baltimore City or Baltimore County.
“He could have been killed in Baltimore City, brought out there and set on fire,” Hill said.
Stewart said she talked with neighbors who saw the flames and heard the fire engines ? but mistook her nephew for a burning pile of trash.
That leaves the family feeling empty inside.
At Thanksgiving ? three months after Glen?s death ? the Stewart family sat down for dinner, Anniebell said. No one could eat.
