ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY — A suspect has been arrested in relation to a November 2022 shooting that injured a 9-year-old in Glen Burnie.
Officers responded to the hospital where they located the mother of the child to discuss the shooting.
According to charging documents, the mother stated that she heard a pop and her son crying. When she sighted her son's wound, she immediately rushed him to the hospital in a silver 2019 Chevy Traverse.
Police visited the scene of the shooting and saw a large amount of glass on the front porch.
When they went inside the home, officers found a black laptop with a hole in it and what appeared to be blood on the stairwell to the second floor.
Outside of the home, police saw that the backseat window of the Traverse was rolled down and spotted what appeared to be blood. They also saw a handgun magazine on the floorboard wrapped in a latex glove.
When asked about the gun, a witness stated that her brother, later identified as Troy Winston, had just came home and he hangs out in Brooklyn.
Police asked the witness if Winston was at her house at first, she denied it but said that Winston was there earlier in the day.
A search and seizure warrant was executed on the home and the vehicle. In the home, a projectile was found in the kitchen. The magazine was filled with zsh 9mm Luger rounds.
Ring camera footage revealed Winston was in the living with a handgun and he placed it in the front pocket of his hooded sweatshirt. He was positively ID'd due to his face and neck tattoos.
Charging documents also reveal that Winston was prohibited from possessing a firearm for multiple factors including, being convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for more than one year on the federal level.
Winston was taken into police custody and is charged with illegal possession of a firearm, reckless endangerment, illegal possession of ammunition, handgun on person.
