Baltimore County police charged Vaughn Lamont Garris, 36, with first-degree murder and first-degree burglary in the killing of Chontae Waters, 31.

Garris lived next door to Waters on Heatherton Court in Woodlawn and broke into Waters? house, hoping to burglarize it, according to police.

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