A Baltimore City Circuit Court judge reluctantly scheduled the attempted homicide trial for Anthony Marion II in late-January 2026 after nearly three months since the defendant’s indictment.
Marion is accused of shooting his girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend outside her home on the 2700 block of Brendan Avenue on Jan. 28, 2025. He is charged with attempted first- and second-degree murder, first-degree assault and reckless endangerment as well as five weapons charges.
During reception court on Oct. 30, an attorney standing in for the lead prosector and Marion’s counsel, Robert Cole, requested a trial date for exactly one year after the incident. Judge Melissa K. Copeland appeared agitated with counsel’s request given the defendant was indicted in July.
“This case should’ve never been put on [this] date because it doesn’t give any wiggle room as to the timetable here,” Judge Copeland said to the attorneys, referring to the defendant’s Hick’s right to be tried within 180 days of his or Cole’s first court appearance.
The Jan. 28, 2026 trial request places Marion’s case past his Hick’s date, which falls on Dec. 30. However, Marion agreed to waive his Hick’s right and was scheduled to appear before Judge Althea M. Handy for his three-day January trial.
“Given the number of days the [prosecution] would need to try the case, this was the first date when the parties were available,” Cole said.
Earlier in Wednesday’s proceeding, the prosecutor shared a plea offer of 50 years, suspending all but 25 years, and three years of supervised probation for attempted-first-degree murder and a concurrent 20 years, the first five years without parole, for firearm use in a felony or violent crime. The defendant would also be required to stay away from the victim and associated parties and register as a gun offender.
This offer was rejected by Cole.
On the day in question, Baltimore Police Department (BPD) officers were called to the city’s Belair-Edison neighborhood around 11:20 p.m. for gunfire and found 11 9mm casings. As detectives assumed control of the crime scene, officers were notified of a gunshot victim walking into MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital about ten minutes after responding to the shooting, according to court documents.
Responding officers found the victim’s white Honda Accord still running and riddled with bullet holes when they arrived at the hospital’s emergency room entrance.
Police spoke with the victim, a man in his 30s, who was shot multiple times in his upper left torso. During a brief interview, court documents state, the victim told police he was parked inside his car while waiting for his ex outside her home on Brendan Avenue. The victim said he and his ex had spoken on the phone prior to him driving to her home.
Moments later, an unidentified person approached and shot the victim several times from outside the car. The victim told police the shooter went by the nickname “Ty” and lived off of Belair Road. He also described the suspect as having dreadlocks, being the same height and weighing about 140 pounds.
Four months after the shooting, court documents state, a BPD detective informed the victim that they identified Marion as the alleged shooter, which the victim confirmed during a photo array.
In July, Cole told Judge Martin H. Schreiber II that Marion’s girlfriend was previously in an abusive relationship and that her ex —the victim — was upset with her dating the defendant. The defense attorney said the victim sent “hundreds upon hundreds of text messages” and left photos of himself with his ex on Marion’s car.
The judge denied the defendant’s bail, saying, “The facts of this case are so violent that I find that there is no condition or combination of conditions that could ensure the safety of the community.”
