Accused Washington Boulevard Shooter Denied Bail

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On Dec. 5, Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Kendra Y. Ausby ultimately decided to deny bail for a 20-year-old non-fatal shooting defendant after hearing from counsel and pretrial services.

Qy’Ance Worrell is charged with first- and second-degree assault, firearm use in a felony violent crime, reckless endangerment, having a handgun on his person, having a loaded handgun on his person, illegal possession of a regulated firearm, illegal possession of ammunition, discharging a firearm within Baltimore City, conspiracy to commit first- and second-degree assault, conspiracy to use a firearm in a felony violent crime, conspiracy to have a loaded handgun on his person and conspiracy to have a handgun on his person in connection to an April 21 incident.

Defense attorney Martin Cohen began his request for home detention by saying that prior to his arrest, Worrell was a working mechanic who lived with his mother. Additionally, Cohen said that Worrell suffers from serious Crohn’s disease, which is difficult to manage in prison.

Cohen said that this case started as an attempted murder, but since the prosecution didn’t have a known victim, it has since been downgraded to first-degree assault. Cohen admitted that he had not yet seen the video evidence in this case, but his client has.

In Worrell’s memory of the evidence, Cohen disputed that the person shown on video was his client and claimed that there were no visible muzzle flashes on the video that would indicate that person shot a gun.

The stand-in prosecutor asked that Worrell be held without bail due to a 2021 handgun possession conviction. He also said that there were visible muzzle flashes on the video. A pretrial services agent likewise asked that Worrell remain incarcerated due to his prior convictions, though she noted that he had no violations of probation or failures to appear in court.

Worrell briefly addressed the court to say he wanted to return home to take care of his one-year-old child since the child’s mother was now homeless.

After considering all the parties’ statements, Judge Ausby ordered that Worrell remain in prison without bail. Worrell will appear for trial on Feb. 6 before Judge John A. Howard.

According to documents from the District Court of Maryland, Baltimore Police Department officers responded to the 2500 block of Washington Boulevard after multiple calls reporting a shooting. Though investigators recovered several shell casings, they could not locate any victims or damaged property. Police identified Worrell on CCTV footage from a nearby store. The video showed his codefendant handing him a gun. Worrell then allegedly proceeded to walk into the street and shoot the gun into the area where police found some of the shell casings.