City Cameras Capture Defendant Shooting Victim on E. Baltimore Street

By Andrew Michaels , Stephanie Landaverde [former] - August 15, 2023
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Attempted murder defendant Nyeki Glover’s statements to a detective with the Baltimore Police Department were not voluntary, according to Glover’s defense counsel at the beginning of his retrial on Aug. 14.

Defense attorney Roya Hanna’s latest claim questioned the detective’s investigation into the shooting that left one man injured outside Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club on the 400 block of E. Baltimore Street on Sept. 17, 2021. Glover, 28, was first tried in March, but fell subject to a mistrial.

Glover’s retrial kicked off Monday morning and abruptly ended in the afternoon when he decided to accept a plea from the prosecution. The defendant pleaded guilty to attempted second-degree murder and firearm use in a felony or violent crime for a total sentence of 40 years, suspending all but 18 years, the first five years without parole and five years of supervised probation.

“Several times, the detective says, ‘I will help you,’” Hanna told the jury during her opening statement earlier in the proceeding. If jurors believed this to be true, she continued, they must disregard Glover’s police statement entirely.

Hanna also argued self-defense, saying her client was “frightened” by the victim, who she said allegedly pulled a handgun on the defendant earlier that day.

“‘Maybe if I didn’t have all of these mental health issues, I wouldn’t have overreacted,’” Hanna said, nothing that this was not an exact quote from Glover during his police interview, but rather, the essence of what he said.

Earlier in the proceeding, the prosecutor said that recovered video footage from nearby stores and CCTV cameras showed the victim on his cell phone on Baltimore Street where Glover got out of a nearby vehicle, walked up to him and eventually opened fire. The defendant then got back into the vehicle and drove away.

Police later pulled the vehicle over after recognizing its description and learned that three other passengers were in the vehicle with Glover at the time of the incident.

The prosecutor said that the victim did pull out of a firearm earlier that day at his aunt’s house, but only because Glover confronted him.

Glover is charged with attempted first and second-degree murder, first and second-degree assault, firearm use in a crime of violence, having a handgun on his person, having a handgun in a vehicle, reckless endangerment and discharging firearms.

The prosecution’s first witness, a crime lab technician, began testimony Monday morning before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge John Howard.

On Aug. 11, Glover rejected a plea deal to serve 40 years suspended all but 20 years in prison, first five years without possibility of parole for attempted second-degree murder and firearm use in a felony violent crime before Judge Howard.