Eliz­a­beth Gon­za­les

To­ba­go Cor­re­spon­dent

Ply­mouth res­i­dent Omar Charles yes­ter­day ap­peared be­fore a Scar­bor­ough mag­is­trate charged with the mur­der of teenag­er Pre­cious Wills.

Charles was not called up­on to plead when he ap­peared and he was re­mand­ed in­to cus­tody to reap­pear on Oc­to­ber 2.

Wills, 17, died af­ter she was shot in the chest on Au­gust 27 at the Up Top Bar and Lounge in Crown Point while lim­ing with her friend.

A po­lice re­port said Wills was hit by a stray bul­let af­ter some­one dis­charged a firearm in­to the crowd. She was rushed to the Scar­bor­ough Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal where doc­tors pro­nounced her dead on ar­rival.

An 18-year-old woman who was with her at the time was al­so in­jured. Yes­ter­day, po­lice said her con­di­tion had im­proved and she was now out of the ICU unit and in a sta­ble con­di­tion.

Fol­low­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions, po­lice ar­rest­ed a sus­pect. Charles was charged last Fri­day night for mur­der, shoot­ing with in­tent to cause griev­ous body harm and pos­ses­sion of firearm and am­mu­ni­tion.

An au­top­sy per­formed last Wednes­day showed she died from a sin­gle gun­shot that pierced her heart.