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By
Ben Dutcher
- February 21, 2025
Daily Stories
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Homicides
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Shooting
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The prosecution presented several witnesses on the second day of 22-year-old Daquan Woodard’s double homicide trial.
An assistant medical examiner examined the bodies of 40-year-old Odell Curtis and 32-year-old Ricardo Brooks-Watters and determined that the pair was shot to death in a homicide. Curtis received a rapidly fatal wound, she said, and Brooks-Watters was shot in the head.
A police officer responding to the parking lot of a 7-Eleven on the 4400 Belair Road testified seeing Curtis and Brooks-Watters lying on the ground. After providing medical support, the victims were transported to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where both were pronounced dead.
In opening arguments, the prosecution told the jury that video footage from a mobile surveillance trailer equipped with three cameras and a speaker allegedly captured Woodard among a group of people on the sidewalk near the parking lot, watching Curtis. Following an apparent dispute between Woodard and Curtis, Woodward allegedly pulls out a gun and fatally shoots Curtis multiple times. He then rounds the car and allegedly does the same to Brooks-Watters.
Defense attorney Maureen O’Leary, whom Woodard had previously tried to dismiss, opted not to cross-examine either witness.
A crime scene technician testified to recovering a cellphone and 12 shell casings and several cartridges in the parking lot, but no gun.
Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Jennifer B. Schiffer continues to preside over this case.as testimony continue.