A Davidsonville teen accused of murder also faces hate crime and burglary charges for separate incidents that happened in the week before the killing, police say.

Days after Jonah Poole, 18, and his girlfriend Kylee Dakes were arrested and charged with killing Tropic Bay Water Gardens owner Edward Stephen Koza last month, Poole was charged with trespassing at The Summit School in Edgewater and spray-painting a swastika and derogatory phrases about sexual orientation on the property, according to court documents.

Anne Arundel County police said the incident at The Summit School — a private school for first through eighth-grade students with learning differences like dyslexia — occurred nine days before Koza was killed.

According to court documents, Poole allegedly spray-painted the exterior of the school’s gym building and its main school building.

Dakes was not charged in the incident and is not facing hate crime charges.

Police said video surveillance captured the act. They said Poole was wearing the same tennis shoes in the video that he was wearing when he was arrested on May 30 in Koza’s killing.

The Summit School’s executive director, Joan McCarthy said the spray paint has been removed. She said she could not comment on the incident further, adding that it is still under investigation.

Police believe that three days after Poole spray-painted the school, he stole more than $11,000 from Pirates Cove Restaurant in Galesville. According to charging documents, the spray-painting incident caused $6,000 in damage.

Poole told police he did not commit the burglary. According to charging documents, his fingerprints were found on the exit door as well as on “several” bottles of alcohol that the suspect was seen touching in video surveillance.

Poole was a senior at Southern High School in Harwood at the time. Bob Mosier, a spokesperson for Anne Arundel County Public Schools, said Poole graduated but did not participate in the school’s graduation ceremony. He is being held without bail at the Jennifer Road Detention Center.

Police allege that on May 24, Poole and Dakes attacked Koza in his store, bound his arms and legs and gagged him, before putting him in his own truck and setting it on fire.

Koza, 67, of Annapolis, was found that night in the rear passenger area of the vehicle. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled his death a homicide.

Investigators later found signs of a struggle inside Koza’s store: Items had been knocked over, and blood was on the floor near a rock that had been moved from a store display.

An autopsy determined Koza sustained blunt force trauma to his head.

Friday, Anne Arundel County Police Department spokesperson Marc Limansky said the motive for and cause of Koza’s death are under investigation.

Limansky said police are working to authenticate a video, which began circulating on social media after Koza’s death, that shows a man lighting a vehicle on fire, allegedly connected to the incident.

A preliminary hearing on the murder charges against Poole and Dakes is scheduled for July 2, according to the Maryland Judiciary.

Dakes, 18, of Harwood, is being held without bail at the Jennifer Road Detention Center. Her attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Dakes was also a senior at Southern High School at the time of the alleged murder. Mosier said that she graduated but did not participate in the school’s graduation ceremony.

Poole has a preliminary hearing on the burglary charges scheduled for June 25. A preliminary hearing has not been scheduled for the hate crime charges, according to the Maryland Judiciary.

Poole is being represented by the Anne Arundel County Public Defender’s Office in all the cases. However, according to court records, a public defender has not yet been named to his cases.

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