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A homicide trial and an attempted homicide trial scheduled to begin on Feb. 18 were postponed to the fall during reception court in Baltimore City Circuit Court.

Marvin Vaughn, who is charged with fatally stabbing a mother and injuring her son in January 2020, was among the delayed trials on Friday. In addition to first-degree murder, the defendant is also charged with first-degree murder in front of a minor, attempted first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder in front of a minor, and use of a deadly weapon with the intent to injure.

The state’s attorney and defense attorney Sharon Dubey agreed on a new trial date of Oct. 4, with the trial expected to last three days before Judge Gregory Sampson.

Vaughn previously rejected a plea offer last summer.

According to charging documents, the 43-year-old Baltimore resident allegedly had a physical altercation with Theatra Bowman shortly before 2:30 a.m. on Jan. 2, 2020, on the 3500 block of Chesterfield Avenue. The 37-year-old mother then woke up her son, 18, to inform him of the altercation.

When Bowman’s son asked the defendant to leave, a fight broke out between them and Vaughn reportedly pulled out a knife and stabbed Bowman and her son, killing Bowman and fracturing her son’s skull.

Bowman was pronounced dead at the scene around 2:45 a.m.

Another trial was delayed Friday as well.

The trial of attempted homicide defendant Aubrey Lang was also postponed to Oct. 4 before Judge Cynthia H. Jones, which was agreed upon but the prosecution and defense attorney Roland Brooks.

Lang is also charged with first-degree assault, firearm use in a felony violent crime, reckless endangerment, firearm possession with a felony conviction, and having a handgun on his person.

The defendant was last in court in October 2021 when he was presented with a plea of 20 years, the first five without parole, for first-degree attempted murder and use of a firearm in a violent crime.

Lang has not yet made a decision whether to accept or reject the plea.

Charging documents state that Baltimore Police Department officers were called to the area of W. North Avenue and N. Smallwood Street around 7:20 p.m. on Aug. 15, 2019, for shots fired and found a gunshot victim laying between two parked vehicles.

During their investigation, police learned the shooting occurred in front of a beauty store on the 2100 block of W. North Avenue and was captured on the store’s camera, showing Lang walking toward the victim and then throwing a punch before shooting the victim in the lower back.