Acquitted: Jury Acquits Man of Shooting at Two Teens, Injuring One

By Andrew Michaels - January 3, 2024
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 Editor’s note: The defendant was acquitted of charges in this case. 

Attempted homicide defendant Davon Jenkins also known as Davon Harold Austin was acquitted of all charges on Dec. 15 after being accused of shooting at two teenagers, injuring one, as they were walking home from school in April 2022.

A day after closing arguments, the jury found Jenkins not guilty of two counts of attempted first and second-degree murder and first and second-degree assault as well as single counts of firearm use in a felony or violent crime, reckless endangerment, being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm, being a prohibited person in possession of ammunition, having a loaded handgun on his person and discharging a firearm.

Charges not sent to the jury included illegal possession of a firearm, firearm possession with a drug conviction and having a handgun on his person.

Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Charles J. Peters presided over the three-day trial.

The State’s Attorney’s Office brought charges against the 39-year-old defendant after he was identified as the suspect in a shooting on the 1200 block of Greenmount Avenue on April 29, 2022. The day before the shooting, court documents state, two boys, a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old, were walking home from school and encountered Jenkins, who asked, “What y’all on?” wanting to know why they were in the area.

When the teens took the same walk home the following day, the prosecutor said, Jenkins ran toward them, pulled out a handgun and shot the 17-year-old boy in his stomach and once in each arm. The other boy was not injured.

Defense attorney Jason Rodriguez argued at trial that the individual seen in video footage did not match the description of his client, adding that the prosecution was “grasping at straws.”