Judge Hands Down Two Life Sentences For Defendant Charged With Double Homicide in 2020

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Jurors were excused from the trial of homicide defendant Quanta Worrell on March 7 after the defendant opted for a plea of 80 years for two murders in the Central Park Heights neighborhood.

Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Kendra Ausby and counsel selected the jury for the 31-year-old defendant a day prior to his acceptance of the prosecution’s offer: two concurrent life sentences, suspending all but 60 years for each first-degree murder charge, a consecutive 20 years for firearm use in a felony violent crime, and five years of supervised probation.

Worrell, who was represented by defense attorney Brandon Patterson, was also sentenced to an additional 20 years for firearm use in a felony violent crime that will run concurrently to the first weapons charge.

The defendant was charged for the murder of Stephen Sanders, 38, and Dimarcus Waldo, 54, on the 3000 block of Oakley Avenue on March 25, 2020. Fox45 News reported that Sanders hired Waldo to drive him to the area. When they arrived, Worrell told Sanders to meet him around the block, where the defendant then opened fire on the vehicle.

Waldo died at the scene, followed later by Sanders’ death.