The family of the security guard brutally attacked in April at a Landover, Md. daycare center is speaking out about the teen’s long road to recovery.
Family members say 18-year-old Jaylen Farmer is nothing less than a hero after the teenager risked his life and placed himself between small children and a violent man with a baseball bat.
On April 26, Mickel Tyrone Young entered the “It’s a Family Affair” daycare center located on the 300 block of Garrett Morgan Boulevard in Landover and asked to use the phone, authorities say.
Staff at the daycare center refused Young’s request, causing him to become violent. Police say that’s when Jaylen Farmer stepped in holding a baseball bat and told the man to leave.
Young took the bat from Farmer, officials say and hit him with it briefly before coming back and breaking windows with it. He then took a daycare employee’s car keys and fled.
Authorities arrested Young near Barlowe Road and Village Green Drive where they also found the stolen vehicle. At the time of his arrest, police say Young appeared to be under the influence of drugs.
Farmer was transported to a local hospital with severe injuries and is recovering. Farmers’s friends and family say Jaylen had taken the job at the daycare to help pay for college and was pursing a professional football career.
