Arrest made in 2017 shooting death of 16-year-old Wilmington girl

The man wanted in the killing of a 16-year-old Wilmington girl last year as she tried to break up a fight in front of her boyfriend's home turned himself in Tuesday, Wilmington police announced.

Shyheim Warren, 24, is in custody after being indicted by a New Castle County grand jury in September on charges related to the shooting death of Tynesia Cephas. Warren has been charged with second-degree murder, two counts of possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony and reckless endangering. 

Warren was indicted by a New Castle County grand jury in September.

Cephas was the youngest of 31 people killed by gunfire in Wilmington in 2017, the deadliest year on record for gun violence, which saw 192 people shot over the year.

Tynesia Cephas, Wilmington homicide victim 2017

Cephas died bleeding on the living room floor of her boyfriend's Kirkwood Street home late at night on April 26, 2017. She was trying to break up a fight when shots erupted. 

Family and friends believed she was having an asthma attack when she collapsed, but they opened her coat to find a bleeding gunshot wound. She died a short time later. 

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