18-year-old sought in teenage girl’s fatal shooting in West Baltimore

Police are searching for an 18-year-old man in the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old girl in West Baltimore last month.

Christian Hursey is wanted in the killing of Jada Sellers, Baltimore Police announced Thursday. Officials would not share the relationship between Hursey and Jada.

Jada was shot around 12:15 a.m. on July 31 in the 700 block of Lyndhurst Street, police said. She died from her injuries on Aug. 12, officials said.

Gboyinde Onijala, a spokesperson for Baltimore County Public Schools, would not share a name, but said the Milford Mill Academy principal sent a letter to families about a student who died. Further, the school’s athletic department posted a picture on Instagram mourning the former cheerleader.

“To our students, please know that it is okay to feel sadness, confusion, anger, numbness, or a range of other emotions in response to this loss. Everyone grieves differently and on their own timeline,” Trylah Shipmann, the principal of the high school, said in the letter. “We encourage you to lean on the people who care about you and to seek support if you are struggling.”

Staffers at Georgia Peach Soul Food, the restaurant Jada worked at, too, mourned her passing in an Instagram post. Working at the restaurant after her older sister, Jasmine Sellers, staffers said Jada had become more than an employee, but family. They described her as “sweet, funny, charismatic, full of life, and impossible not to love.”

“Whether she was working the register, serving food, helping customers at Woodlawn or Newtown, dancing around the store, or making one of her TikToks, Jada was always being Jada,” the post read. “Seeing just how many lives Jada touched has reminded us how special she truly was.”

Funeral services for Jada are scheduled for Aug. 29 at the New Antioch Baptist Church in Windsor Mill.