On Nov 6, closing statements were heard before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Allan Lazerow regarding the murder trial of 21-year-old Shajuan Rodney Rice.
Rice is charged with two counts of first-degree murder, six counts of firearm use in a violent crime, two counts of attempted first-degree murder, and two counts of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. These charges are in connection to a 2025 shooting that resulted in the death of Ronald Glasco Jr., 25, and injury of a second victim.
According to charging documents, on July 2, 2025, ShotSpotter alerts were received by officers from the 3600 block of Ravenwood Avenue. Upon arrival, officers located the first victim, a 26-year-old male, suffering from an apparent gunshot wound to the leg. He advised officers that his friend was inside a home and also shot. Glasco was identified and transported to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced deceased.
Witness statements and surveillance footage determined that a suspect vehicle was parked in the 3700 block of Ravenwood Avenue. The victims had allegedly parked in the same block and were walking towards the incident location when two individuals exited a suspect vehicle and ran in the same direction. The pair discharged firearms and shot Glasco before retreating to their vehicle to flee the scene. The suspects subsequently shot the second victim from the vehicle afterwards and continued to flee.
During closing statements, the state described the timeline as a ‘blood feud’ between the defendant’s and the victim’s groups. Furthermore, he said cellphone data revealed the defendant’s phone to be near the scene of the crime on July 2.
He also said the defendant’s phone was recovered near the suspect vehicle–grey Acura-allegedly used in the shooting. Footage of the shooting was played for the jury to see with the prosecution stating that one of the shooters has a similar body build to the suspect.
Defense attorney Warren Brown said another individual at the scene was also shooting and may have unintentionally hit Glasco.
\Moreover, he stresses to the jury that expert testimony says that bullets recovered were consistent with the defendant’s gun, but not fired from the weapon.
Brown underscored that the gun the defendant mentioned in a jail call is not an admission of guilt. and not an admission to having killed anyone.
The jury is set to begin deliberations. .
