DETECTIVES ARREST SUSPECT IN WOODLAWN SHOOTING
November 9, 2023
Violent Crimes detectives with the Baltimore County Police Department arrested 29-year-old Matthew Okumodi in the non-fatal shooting that occurred Tuesday, October 24, 2023. Okumodi remains held without bond at the Baltimore County Detention Center, charged with attempted first and second-degree murder, first-degree assault and other firearms-related charges.
On Tuesday, October 24, 2023, at approximately 3:35 p.m., officers assigned to the Baltimore County Police Department’s Woodlawn Precinct responded to the playground area of Edmondson Heights Elementary School in reference to reports of shots fired. Shortly after officers arrived, they located a teenage male suffering from a single gunshot wound in the general vicinity of the school.