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By
Jasmine Milbourne [former]
- July 28, 2025
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Defense attorney Alex B. Leikus moved to suppress evidence with the nickname ‘Murder’ for his client Montay Brown, 20, on July 28 in a pre-trial motion.
The prosecution objected on the ground that Brown was identified by this nickname and relates to much of the evidence. The prosecution told Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Levi S. Zaslow that surveillance footage and eyewitness testimony will place Brown at the scene, but under the street name ‘Murder.’
A ruling is pending.
Brown is charged with first-degree murder and firearm use in a felony violent crime in connection to the homicide of 33-year-old Garfield Redd.
According to charging documents, the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) responded to the block of East 21st Street in reference to a shooting. They located a black 2006 Acura TLX crashed into the middle of the sidewalk and subsequently hit a large cable box. The driver, identified as Redd, was pronounced deceased on scene from a gunshot wound to his left eye.
Survelliance video showed Redd stopping at the intersection of Charles Street for an unidentified handicapped person. A person identified as Brown is seen walking up behind the driver’s side of the car, pulling a sawed-off handgun out of his grey backpack and shooting the victim at close range before running down a side street.
Charging documents name an unidentified tipster that gave the investigating officers a social media profile, the suspect’s phone number and the nickname ‘Murder.’
Brown was picked up on 2100 block of Maryland Avenue and arrested after officers allegedly found a 9mm loaded handgun on him, 11 live magazine cartridges strapped to his back and 17 containers with suspected cocaine in his left coat pocket.
The defendant is prohibited from possessing a handgun until he is 21 due to state law and is prohibited from possessing a firearm until he is 30 due to a prior juvenile adjudication.
Since he was arrested on a homicide warrant and when police allegedly found multiple firearms on his person, Brown was charged with possession of a firearm while being a minor, illegal possession of a regulated firearm, loaded handgun on person, handgun on person, illegal possession of ammo and possessing controlled dangerous substance.
Brown rejected a plea offer of life suspending all but 50 years with the first five without the possibility of parole, five years of probation and a concurrent two year sentence for the first-degree murder and the firearm charge.
The jury trial is set to formally begin on July 29 and last four days.