16 Teenage girls die and only one survivor remains in critical condition this morning after they were electrocuted in a swimming pool.
Reginald Porter age 18 was taken into custody and will be charged after he was upset that his girlfriend broke up with him subsequently threw his radio into the pool.
This was a private pool at a home along Rockcreeck Road in Laurel, Maryland.
Adults pulled the surviving girl out of the pool after she went into cardiac arrest.
Firefighters performed CPR until an officer arrived and used a defibrillator to resuscitate the girl, police said.
She was flown to the hospital by helicopter. Her name was not released.
Police said the 16 other girls in the pool died instantly.
Porter’s high school girlfriend had broken up with him the night before via text message. He repeatedly called and left threatening text messages saying:
“I promise you I will be the last boyfriend you ever have you cold heartless B*tch”
He then came to the pool party with his boom box and used an extenstion cord to plug it up to play music by the pool. He put on the song “Feel No Ways” by rapper Drake’s latest album(Views) on repeat. That song is what he said caused him to commit the crime and he wanted it to be the last thing his girlfriend heard before she died. When the girls were reportedly playing Marco Polo he threw the radio into the pool while it was still plugged in. It is said he stood and watched as the girls were being electrocuted to death and was laughing.
Porter will be arraigned tomorrow and faces 16 counts of murder and one count of attempted murder. He will undergo a psychiatric evaluation to see if he is fit to stand trial.
