Forestville resident charged with first-degree murder

A Forestville man was arrested Friday night and charged with first-degree murder in a fatal shooting a day earlier in Temple Hills.

Wydell Eugene Butler, 19, of the 6400 block of Hil Mar Drive was arrested in connection with the death of Donte Kearney, 21, of the 4000 block of Roy Place in Bladensburg, who was shot in a domestic dispute, according to Prince George’s police.

Butler had pleaded guilty earlier this month to second-degree assault and theft in February. Butler had been awaiting sentencing, which would have taken place this September.

At around 11:35 p.m. Thursday, officers responded to the 4100 block of 21st Avenue for a report of gunshots.

They found Kearney suffering from a gunshot wound to the upper body after an apparent domestic dispute, said Evan Baxter, a spokesman for the Prince George’s County Police Department. Kearney was pronounced dead at the scene. Police declined to release additional information about the dispute or how the men knew each other.

Butler was remanded to the Department of Corrections on a no-bond status. He is scheduled to appear in Prince George’s Circuit Court in Upper Marlboro at 8:45 a.m. Sept. 11. Butler does not yet have an attorney.

Anyone with additional information about the case is asked to call the Prince George’s County Police Department’s Homicide Unit at 301-772-4925 or Crime Solvers at 1-866-411-8477.

Originally published at The Gazette.