Edward Smith, 34, is set to serve 10 years behind bars after pleading guilty to first-degree assault and firearm use before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Jeffrey M. Geller on March 10.
For the assault charge, Smith was sentenced to 25 years, suspending all but 10. He received a concurrent five years without parole for the gun charge, as well as five years of supervised probation and mandatory registration as a gun offender upon release.
In exchange for his plea, the state dismissed Smith’s remaining charges, which included attempted murder, reckless endangerment and three gun offenses. Smith was initially charged for his involvement in a non-fatal shooting incident that occurred near midnight in Fells Point last August.
At approximately 12:43 a.m., Baltimore Police Department (BPD) officers responded to a shooting on the 800 block of S. Broadway, where they found five 9mm shell casings, two projectiles and a live 9mm shell cartridge.
Surveillance footage from the crime scene showed Smith wearing a black hoodie, dark gray pants and white shoes as he exited a dark gray Acura and began following a group of unidentified individuals into a park. While following the group, Smith drew his handgun and opened fire.
Several individuals in the group took cover, but no one was hit or sustained injuries. Though officers located a woman with an apparent graze injury to her arm, they later determined her injury was “not consistent with a gunshot wound.”
