Police: 17-year-old encouraged shooting at birthday party

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Baltimore County police said Friday the second teenage boy arrested in the slaying of a Baltimore man during his daughter?s Sweet 16th birthday party last week encouraged his friend to pull the trigger.

Police arrested 17-year-old Dwayne Drake Tuesday, charging him as an adult with first- and second-degree homicide, assault and conspiracy to murder Bryant Jones. They said he egged on his friend, 16-year-old Jamal Charles, when Jones tried to kick the pair out of his daughter?s birthday party last Friday.

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