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Suspect in mom, tot slay stays in Maryland

A photo of Shakeela Planter with her son,

Photo credit: Handout | A photo of Shakeela Planter with her son, Jaiden.

Six days after authorities think Shakeela Planter and her 2-year-old son Jaiden were killed in their North Bay Shore apartment, the man police suspect in the slayings showed up unexpectedly at his family's home in Laurel, Md.

The man's grandmother said she prepared a Christmas Eve breakfast for Jerry A. Lewis, 24, after his arrival.

"We didn't know anything happened," Gladys Watson,...

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