Teen Arrested for Fatal Stabbing of 14-Year-Old Boy

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In reference to the homicide that occurred in the Northeast District on July 10, Baltimore Police Department investigators have arrested 18-year-old Brandon Lee Adams Jr. of Baltimore.

Investigators learned that Adams fatally stabbed 14-year-old Cortez Lemon during an altercation on a Maryland Transit bus on the 4200 block of Frankford Avenue.

Officers arrested Brandon Adams Jr. shortly after the incident, on the 5300 block of Belair Road, and transported him to the Central Booking Intake Facility, where he was charged with first-degree murder.