One of four people charged in the fatal 2019 shooting of a beloved Baltimore-area YMCA coach is believed to be in metro Atlanta, federal authorities announced Friday.
Khalil Madden, 27, of Maryland is wanted on a first-degree murder charge in connection with the Nov. 5, 2019, home invasion that left 31-year-old Jordan Taylor dead, investigators said in a tweet. A $5,000 reward has been offered for information leading to his arrest.
The announcement comes two days after Baltimore police arrested three others in Taylor’s shooting. Aaron Butler, 48; Donta Holdclaw, 46; and Elease Frazier, 27, were all arrested Wednesday on murder charges, police said in a news release.
Taylor, a youth sports director at the Y in Catonsville, Maryland, was shot through the front door of his townhome while trying to keep people from breaking in, the Baltimore Sun reported. Investigators believe the suspects were looking for a safe, but ended up leaving with nothing.
Surveillance video released three months after the deadly shooting showed three people near Taylor’s home shortly before he was killed, the newspaper reported. At the time, police said they were searching for suspects who fled the scene in a light blue Honda CR-V that had been stolen during a residential burglary two months before the shooting.
Police eventually located the stolen SUV outside a home in Baltimore County and linked Madden to the vehicle using DNA evidence, according to charging documents obtained by the Sun. During a subsequent search of his home, investigators recovered a cellphone that was reportedly used to contact Butler six times just before the deadly home invasion.
Butler’s phone placed him near the murder scene around the time Taylor was killed, and was also used to call Frazier and Holdclaw multiple times that night, the newspaper reported. In addition, detectives determined Madden sent a Facebook message to Frazier that included a screenshot of a social media post about the case.
Authorities said Madden should be considered armed and dangerous. Anyone who sees him or knows his whereabouts is asked to call the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives at 1-800-283-4867.
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