Defendant Released on His Own Recognizance Returns for Sentencing

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A non-fatal shooting defendant pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Oct. 11 before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Barry G. Williams.

On Sept. 29, Jerrod Jones was convicted of first-degree assault and the use of a firearm to commit a violent crime in connection to an incident on Sept. 14, 2021, where a man sustained multiple gunshot wounds on North Monastery Avenue.

Judge Williams sentenced Jones, 29, to 25 years for the assault charge, suspending all but five years, with three years of supervised parole and a concurrent five years without the possibility of parole for the use of a firearm with a felony violent crime.