Man surrenders to face NKY murder charge in shooting death of 16-year-old girl
The 18-year-old Cincinnati man wanted for murder in the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old girl in Burlington, Kentucky, early this morning has turned himself in.
The Boone County Sheriff's Office says Demarkus Hedges surrendered to the U.S. Marshals Service in Covington about 2:30 p.m.
Hedges will be taken to the Boone County Detention Center and held on a $1 million bond, according to a news release from the sheriff's office.
The office said in an earlier release that witnesses said Hedges shot Scarlett Tucker in the head after she refused to pick up a bag of marijuana that had fallen to the floor in the bedroom of a home in the 3000 block of Silver Brook Drive.
Hedges then fled the home in a 2010 maroon Nissan Maxima, witnesses told investigators who found Tucker dead when they arrived at the scene about 2:15 a.m.
The witnesses cooperating with the investigation, which is continuing, were in the home at the time of the shooting. They include an 18-year-old female who lives there, a 17-year-old female and an 18-year-old male.
All five people had spent much of Monday and Tuesday morning together in Cincinnati and Covington. They returned to the home in Burlington about 1:30 a.m.
In addition to murder, Hedges is charged with tampering with evidence and two counts of unlawful transaction with a minor.
This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: NKY police: Man accused of fatally shooting teen girl turns himself in
