Teen charged with murder of Jayden Harrison outside Greenville Planet Fitness

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) -Greenville police say an 18-year-old has been arrested and charged with murder in the death of Jayden Harrison outside of Planet Fitness last year.

Shortly before 1:00 a.m. on July 4, 2023, Harrison was shot and killed in the parking lot of Planet Fitness at 801 Thomas Langston Road.

Six months before that, on December 10, 2022, police say another young man was shot multiple times in the area of Kinsey Loop in Winterville.

Greenville and Winterville police discovered the DNA recovered from the Planet Fitness case matched DNA recovered in the Winterville case.

Police arrested the suspect Friday for his involvement in both crimes.

Due to the fact he was a juvenile when the crimes occurred, police are unable to release his name at this time. They do say he is the same individual seen on surveillance cameras in the area of Planet Fitness the night of Harrison’s murder.