Three Essex teenagers were charged Friday with first-degree murder in the strangulation last week of a 25-year-old man in a wheelchair.
Baltimore County police identified the three suspects as Keon Torone Samuels, 18, of the 700 block of Walnut Grove Road; Andrew Minh Nguyen, 18, of the 1300 block of Kelly Case Lane; and Marlon Geovany Montes, 19, of the 1300 block of Elsing Road.
Marin Jonathan Lendosky George, was found dead Sept. 18 in his Essex apartment by a maintenance man.
Homicide detectives said he had been targeted by the three suspects and murdered in the course of a robbery, and the medical examiner determined that he had been strangled.
During the robbery, police said, Nguyen put his arm around the victim's neck, knocked him out of his wheelchair and choked him. The other defendants ransacked the apartment and took jewelry, a computer, an iPod and other property, police said.
The three suspects were arrested Thursday. On Friday, they were taken before a court commissioner and charged with first-degree murder.
They were being held without bail at the Baltimore County Detention Center.
