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By
Kayla Baize
- September 10, 2025
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The case against 20- year-old Alexis Cancel-Soto continued on Sept. 10 before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Nicole K. Barmore, as jurors heard testimony from a firearms examiner and a parking lot security guard about the moments leading up to a 2024 shooting that left 19-year-old Cameran Holt dead.
Cancel-Soto alongside two co-defendants, Daeshaun Tyreke Clark, 27,and Devontaye Richardson, 29, is charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, reckless endangerment, and multiple firearm-related offenses in connection to the Oct. 27, 2024 shooting, which occurred on the unit block of W. Hamburg Street.
The parking lot security guard testified he was working that night when he saw a group of women partying beside a purple Dodge Charger across the street. They then approached the lot where they met a friend they recognized. Shortly after, the purple Dodge followed. According to the security guard’s testimony the driver of the Dodge then engaged in a verbal altercation with a driver of a “small sedan” over a supposed scratch to his own car. The Dodge driver was then pulled away by a friend to calm down, but then came back allegedly carrying an AR-15.
“He walked right by me,” the security guard told jurors, recalling that he told him to “get the f**k out of my lot.”
The driver reportedly replied, “I’m leaving,” before driving towards Hamburg Street.
The guard then testified that the group in the lot followed the Dodge by foot. Moments later, he recalled hearing about seven to nine gunshots. He later found Holt’s car with bullet holes through its rear windshield.
Defence attorney Marci T. Johnson questioned whether the security guard knew or saw Cancel-Soto that night, and he admitted he did not.
The prosecution also called a Baltimore Police firearms examiner, who testified investigators recovered multiple different cartridge casings from the crime scene, suggesting at least three different firearms were used that night.
Cancel-Soto’s trial is scheduled to continue this week with additional testimony.