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WEBVTT ARGUMENT ANDTHIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME THEYHAVE RESPONDED TO THAT HOME.>> I CANNOT BELIEVE IT.I HAVE NO WORDS TO SAY LIKE ASON USED TO SHOT HIS FATHER.IT IS SURPRISING.KIM: PEOPLE ARE SHOCKED TO LEARNWHAT HAPPENED INSIDE THIS HOME.19-YEAR-OLD DEVIN VALLADE THESECOND IS CHARGED WITH SHOOTINGAND KILLING HIS OWN FATHER, ALSONAMED DEVIN VALLADE.>> THE SUSPECT HAD BEEN INVOLVEDIN AN ARGUMENT WITH HIS FATHERTHAT DAY.IT HAD STEMMED FROM ANAUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT HE WAS INEARLIER IN THE DAY.HE WAS ARGUING WITH HIS MOTHERAND THAT ESCALATED AND HISFATHER BECAME INVOLVED IN THATARGUMENT WITH HIM.KIM CHARGING DOCUMENTS STATE THE: SUSPECT THEN WENT DOWN TO THEBASEMENT, GOT HIS FATHERSHANDGUN AND RETURNED BACUPSTAIRS AND "KICKED IN THEMASTER BEDROOM DOOR WHERE HISFATHER, MOTHER, AND BROTHER WEREHIDING.THE DEFENDANT'S MOTHER PLAYEDFOR HIM TO PUT THE GUN DOWN." HE THEN SHOT HIS FATHER, WHO WASUNARMED, IN THE CHEST. WHENPOLICE ARRIVED, HE CAME OUTSIDEWITH HIS HANDS ABOVE HIS HEADAND "THE DEFENDANT STATED IT ISON THE FLOOR, HE ATTACKED ME,AND I SHOT HIM." HE'S BEING CHARGED WITH FIRST>>HE'S BEING CHARGED WITH FIRSTAND SECOND DEGREE MURDER BECAUSEWE KNOW HE LEFT THE ARGUMENTWITH HIS FATHER WITH THE INTENTTO GO AND RETRIEVE HIS HAND GUNIN THE BASEMENKIM CHARGING DOCUMENTS SHOW WHEN: DETECTIVES ASKED HIM WHY HEGOT THE GUN FROM THE BASEMENTINSTEAD OF SIMPLY LEAVING THEHOUSE, HE STATED IT WAS COLDOUTSIDE.I HAD NOWHERE TO GO.POLICE SAY THEY'VE BEEN CALLEDTO THE HOME BEFORE.>> THERE'S NOT AN EXTENSIVEHISTORY OF DOMESTIC CALLS ATTHAT LOCATION.WE DID RESPOND THERE THREE YEARSAGO WHEN THERE WAS A VERBALARGUMENT BETWEEN THIS SAMEFATHER AND SONKIM: AFTER THE SHOOTING, THE SONHIMSELF CALLED 911 AND STATED HEHAD SHOT HIS FATHER.

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A 19-year-old man is in custody and charged in the fatal shooting of his father Sunday night in Towson, Baltimore County police said. Download the WBAL app. Police said officers were called at 10 p.m. on a report of a shooting inside a house in the 8100 block of Kirkwall Court. When officers arrived, they found the victim, Devin Vallade, 46, on the upper level of the house suffering from a gunshot wound to the upper body. Vallade was declared dead at the scene, police said. The suspect, Devin Vallade II, 19, came out of the house with his hands up, police said. Charging documents state: "The defendant stated, 'It's on the floor. He attacked me, and I shot him.'" "The suspect had been involved in an argument with his father that day. It had stemmed from an automobile accident he was in earlier in the day. He was arguing with his mother. That escalated, and his father became involved in that argument with him," Baltimore County police Sgt. Andrea Bylen said. Charging documents state the suspect then went down to the basement, got his father's handgun and returned upstairs and "kicked in the master bedroom door, where his father, mother and brother were hiding. The defendant's mother pled for him to put the gun down." Devin Vallade II was taken into custody and was charged with first- and second-degree murder, police said. He remained held Monday without bail. "He's being charged with first- and second-degree murder because we know he left the argument with his father with the intent to go and retrieve his handgun in the basement," Bylen said. Charging documents said Devin Vallade II waived his Miranda rights and talked with police. When detectives asked him why he got the gun from the basement instead of leaving the house, he stated, "It was cold outside. I had nowhere to go." Police said this was not the first time officers were called to the house. "There's not an extensive history of domestic calls at that location. We did respond there one time three years ago when there was a verbal argument between this same father and son," Bylen said. Stay with wbaltv.com, the mobile app and 11 News for the latest on this story.