BALTIMORE — A grand jury indicted the 16-year-old accused of fatally shooting a fellow Joppatowne High School student on charges including first-degree murder on Tuesday, the Harford County State’s Attorney’s office said.

The charges stemming from the Sept. 7 shooting in a school bathroom that killed Warren Curtis Grant, 15, and rattled the small Joppatowne community remain the same, a state’s attorney’s office spokesperson said.

Suspect Jaylen Prince will now face his charges in Harford County Circuit Court. His case information, including whether a defense attorney had entered an appearance, was not available on online court records because he is a minor. The Office of the Public Defender, which represented Prince in district court, did not immediately return a request for comment.

Prince, of Edgewood, was charged as an adult with first-degree murder, first- and second-degree assault, and use of a firearm in commission of a felony shortly after the shooting. The Harford County Sheriff’s Office said he was arrested after a person reported someone “attempting to break into a house” after the shooting suspect fled the school.

Grant was shot one time at about 12:30 p.m. that day, which was during the first week of school in Harford County. Fellow students dragged him out of the bathroom, and he was tended to by a school nurse before being airlifted to the Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he died.

A Sept. 19 preliminary hearing for Prince in district court was canceled due to the indictment, the state’s attorney’s office said.

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