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Man indicted on murder charges in death of Toledo 17-year-old

Edward Griffin, 19, is accused of murder in the April shooting death of 17-year-old Mark Wortham.

TOLEDO, Ohio — UPDATE: Edward Griffin, 19, was indicted on an aggravated murder charge Monday. He is scheduled to be back in court on July 26 for the charges he was previously indicted on in April.

The original story is below:

A Toledo man was indicted on murder charges by a Lucas County grand jury on April 27 in the shooting death of 17-year-old Mark Wortham.

Edward Griffin, 19, was indicted on two counts of murder and one count of felonious assault. He is being held in the Lucas County Jail on a $1 million bond.

Griffin is accused of shooting and killing Wortham on April 21. Wortham was found with at least one bullet wound in front of a west Toledo home that afternoon. He later died at the hospital.

Wortham, a student at Rogers High School, is the seventh juvenile homicide victim of 2023 in Toledo. There have been 12 homicides so far in Toledo in 2023, including Wortham.

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