A third person has been arrested and charged in the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Laurel High School senior Corey Mumford in April, Delaware State Police announced Monday.
Police said that 21-year-old Shyheem Latham-Purnell of Laurel was found in a Salisbury, Maryland home and taken into custody by the Maryland Marshals Task Force on Monday. When he is extradited to Delaware, state police said Latham-Purnell will be charged with first-degree murder, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony and by a person prohibited, and first-degree conspiracy.
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Latham-Purnell is the last of whom police believed to be three people involved in the shooting of Mumford on April 14. Jhalir Henry, a 27-year-old from Delmar, was arrested and charged with murder on April 21, and 28-year-old Donregus Holland of Hurlock, Maryland, was arrested and charged May 18.
Mumford, a popular, college-bound basketball player, died after being shot eight times while walking with friends outside Wexford Village apartments, according to an arrest warrant.
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Police have said Mumford was not the intended target.
A few hours after Mumford’s killing, a second shooting occurred on Shiloh Church Road in Laurel in which one person was injured, according to police. The warrant says that shooting may have been retaliatory.
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