BALTIMORE, MD – An 18-year-old man who shot and killed his 8-year-old brother with a shotgun threatened to shoot himself when police arrived at their Presbury Street home on December 30th.
Police were able to talk 18-year-old Devin Wilson out of taking his own life and placed him under arrest after officers found his 8-year-old brother dead in another room.
On December 30th, Wilson’s mother charged her son to watch his four younger siblings, 2 to 8. At one point, Devin called his mother to return home, telling his mother her son Dylan had been shot.
Dylan was taken to John’s Hopkins Hospital, where he was pronounced dead by medical personnel a short time later.
Devin initially told police his younger brother shot himself, but a police investigation disproved that claim due to evidence found at the scene.
Wilson purchased the shotgun, according to court documents, after using money he made selling a puppy.
He was arrested on Tuesday and charged with first-degree murder.