Jury Finds Man Guilty of Triple Murder in Neighbor Dispute

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Convicted homicide defendant Marvelle Worsley is facing multiple life sentences for the triple murder of his neighbor’s family members following a jury’s guilty finding on Aug 15.

A jury found the 51-year-old defendant guilty of three counts of first-degree murder, four counts of using a firearm in a crime of violence and single counts of attempted first-degree murder, having a loaded handgun on his person, having a handgun on his person and possessing a firearm while having a felony conviction.

Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Jennifer B. Schiffer presided over the week-long trial, with Tony Garcia representing Worsley.

Worsley’s sentencing is scheduled at 11 a.m. on Nov. 3.

Over three days, jurors heard about the interactions between Worsley and his neighbor — the sole survivor of the mass shooting on April 1, 2023. The neighbor accused Worsley of repeatedly parking close to her car and playing loud music at his home in the year leading up to the shooting on the 3200 block of Woodring Road. The surviving victim contacted her father, 49-year-old Charles Murray, who confronted Worsley alongside his daughter’s boyfriend, 41-year-old Girard Smith.

The prosecutor said the pair was shot and killed by Worsley in addition to Murray’s 69-year-old mother, Darlene Briscoe, who was standing on an adjoining porch. The neighbor was also shot, but survived.

Gunshot wounds to her abdomen require the victim to use an ostomy bag, the prosecution said at trial.

Worsley’s actions veered more toward self-defense, Garcia told jurors, saying the neighbor had told Worsley of her father “wanting to do something to [him].” When Murray and Smith arrived at the defendant’s home, Garcia explained, they refused to get off Worsley’s porch. Worsley did not open fire until he saw a gun sticking out of Smith’s waistband.

The defendant attributed his close parking to rushing home from GameStop with a PlayStation 5 for his son’s eighth birthday. During heated exchanges with his neighbor, Worsley testified that he told his neighbor, “B*tch, if you send someone to my house, Imma kill him.”

The jury reached their verdict the day after closing arguments.