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Latest Brooklyn Day Shooting Defendant Pleads Guilty

Details A Baltimore City Circuit Court judge accepted the guilty plea of a 19-year-old accused of participating in the 2023 Brooklyn Day mass shooting at a May 17 hearing. Aaron Brown... Read More

Murder Defendant Maintains Innocence, Requests More Time for Investigation

Details A 50-year-old murder defendant waived his Maryland right to a speedy trial so his attorney could continue investigating his case. Michael Atkinson is charged with first-degree murder and possession of... Read More

Homicide Defendant Found Guilty of Back-to-Back Shootings in Fells Point Last Year

Details A jury found homicide defendant Reginald Whitaker guilty of murdering 33-year-old Traquarn Lewis and shooting another man minutes later in Fells Point last July. On May 16, the jury’s foreperson... Read More

Gun Evidence Clears Homicide Defendant of Murder But Not Weapons Charges

Details A Baltimore man has been cleared of murder charges for the killing of 27-year-old Jeremy Maldonado last June after the investigation revealed the alleged murder weapon did not match the... Read More

Attempted Murder Trial Postponed for New Evidence

Details A witness coming forward with new video evidence yet to be reviewed caused the postponement of a trial for a Baltimore man on May 20. Terrell Parker, 28, is being... Read More

Defendant Found Guilty of First Degree Murder in Spite of Alibi

Details A 46-year-old Baltimore man was found guilty of first-degree murder in a hearing on May 9. In addition to the charge of first-degree murder, the defendant, Ricky Crenshaw, was found... Read More

Attempted Murder Trial Postponed So Recuperating Victim Can Testify

Details An attempted murder defendant’s trial was postponed because the victim is recovering from surgery and was unable to testify on May 20. Kimani Johnson is charged with attempted first-degree murder,... Read More

Video Evidence at Center of Fells Point Double Shooting Trial

Details Despite substantial video evidence, the defense claimed mistaken identity in the trial of a 29-year-old man accused of a murder and an attempted murder that took place within about 20... Read More

Cockeysville Man Gets Five Years for Non-Fatal Shooting on Reisterstown Road

Details A 31-year-old Cockeysville man accused of firing multiple gunshots at an unidentified victim in West Baltimore last year will serve five years in prison after pleading guilty on May 14.... Read More

Attempted Murder Suspect Accused of Shooting at Victim 14 Times Held Without Bail

Details A 22-year-old Baltimore man will remain held without bail after a Baltimore City Circuit Court judge deemed the District Court’s decision “appropriate” during a bail review proceeding on May 17.... Read More

19-Year-Old Pleads Guilty to 2022 Shooting

Details Nearly two years after a car in the Northwestern District of Baltimore was shot at and vandalized, a defendant accepted responsibility for the shooting on May 17. Davon Wright, 19,... Read More

Now Competent, Teen Pleads Guilty to Killing T-Mobile Employee

Details A 19-year-old whose case was plagued with competency concerns pleaded guilty to four 2023 T-Mobile robberies, including one where an employee was killed, on May 16. Arthur McCaden was charged... Read More

‘Atypical’ Murder Defendant Gets 40 Years for Killing of MTA Bus Driver

Details Every available seat was full of loved ones for both parties in Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Robert K. Taylor, Jr.’s courtroom May 15 for the sentencing of a 55-year-old... Read More

Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Murder, Attempted Murder in Two Separate Shootings

Details A Baltimore City Circuit Court judge sentenced a 24-year-old man to 30 years in prison after the defendant pleaded guilty to two separate shootings, including the murder of 52-year-old Eric... Read More

Surveillance Footage Captures Suspect Allegedly Performing Back-to-Back Shootings, Prosecutor Claims

Details The trial of a defendant who allegedly followed and shot two Royal Farms customers, killing one last July began May 14. Reginald Whitaker is charged with first-degree murder, firearm use... Read More

Man Who Assisted Shooter in Killing MTA Bus Driver Sentenced to Four Years Home Detention

Details A 32-year-old Baltimore man accused of driving a shooter to and from the scene of a shooting was sentenced for being an accessory after the fact. On May 16, the... Read More

Man Who Confessed to Roommate’s Murder Pleads Guilty

Details A 25-year-old Baltimore man is expected to be sentenced in August for his roommate’s murder after accepting a plea agreement from the prosecution on May 14. Markis Russell was initially... Read More

Marathon Gas Station Shooter Pleads Guilty

Details A 27-year-old Baltimore County man pleaded guilty to a 2023 drive-by shooting before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Jeannie J. Hong on May 14. Deangelo Fulton, of Reisterstown, Md., appeared... Read More

18-Year-Old Sentenced to 65 Years in Prison for Fatal Shooting at Mergenthaler High School in 2022

Details An 18-year-old Baltimore man will serve 65 years in prison following his conviction for the murder of 17-year-old Jeremiah Brogden at Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High School in 2022. On May 10,... Read More

Defendant Lured Victim and, ‘Shot Him Like a Dog,’ Prosecutor Says at Sentencing

Details A Baltimore City Circuit Court judge sentenced defendant Sean Braxton-Carter to life plus 20 years incarceration on May 16 for luring 29-year-old Marvin Kosh to his death in 2020. Braxton-Carter,... Read More

Defendant Gets Supervised Probation for Bus Stop Shooting

Details A 37-year-old Baltimore man was granted probation before judgement on May 15 for firing a gun at the ground to prevent what defense counsel argued could have been an assault... Read More

21-Year-Old Man Takes Five Year Plea for Domestic-Related Shooting

Details A 21-year-old man will serve five years in prison without the possibility of parole for shooting a woman in a domestic incident in October 2023. On May 15, Baltimore resident... Read More

BB Gun Homicide Defendant Sentenced

Details Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Dana M. Middleton sentenced a BB gun homicide defendant to 17 years in a May 10 hearing. The jury found Taiwan Mitchell, 41, guilty of... Read More

Bullets From Victim’s Body ‘Consistent With’ Gun Found on Defendant

Details Multiple bullets taken from the body of 19-year-old Tavon Wilson Jr. were consistent with the handgun found on the driver’s side floor of defendant Clifton Shields’ BMW two days after... Read More