BALTIMORE — A daughter charged for the murder of her father.
Brian Reed, 59, was shot to death on January 18.
Baltimore City Police say his 37-year-old daughter, Shanelle Reed, pulled the trigger.
She was still at the crime scene, on Groveland Avenue, when officers arrived.
Brian had called police earlier in the day, accusing Shanelle of locking him out of their house.
Less than an hour later, Shanelle dialed 911 alleging being assaulted by her father.
According to charging documents, Shanelle provided detectives with a written statement detailing what happened.
"I went upstairs to get my weapon, my gun, while my dad Brian, was still trying to unscrew the deadbolt and I shot towards him," wrote Shanelle. He seemed to hesitate while still working on the door but then he eventually left the house, and I shot toward him once more and called 911."
Investigators ended up recovering a .40 caliber Glock handgun and ammunition from the home.
Brian Reed’s longtime friend, Lamont Queen, lives three doors down from the scene of the shooting and says in recent years, the father had gone to great lengths to try to help his daughter with mental health issues.
“He said, ‘Look, I’m trying to get my daughter some help, but she won’t take it,’ and he really had gotten to the point that he had given her space, allowing her to have her space in the house and he would stay elsewhere,” Queen told us.
He adds Reed had even purchased his daughter a vehicle and had stopped by to put new tags on it a few hours before his death.
When he noticed his daughter had replaced the locks on his house to try to keep him out, he tried to remove them.
