The jury trial of Travis Braxton continued on Oct. 23 before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Paul J. Cucuzella with witness testimony from the defendant’s family.
Braxton, 23, along with his 44-year-old father, Larry Braxton, who is being tried separately, are charged with attempted first- and second-degree murder, first-degree assault, and home invasion in connection to an Oct. 13, 2024 shooting that occurred on the 4300 block of Sheldon Avenue.
Braxton’s grandmother took the stand and testified that she was standing on her porch with her grandson and his girlfriend when the victim approached with a male friend. She said the confrontation quickly turned hostile when the victim threatened to kill both her and the defendant.
“I get you killed,” she recalled the victim saying.
Braxton’s girlfriend testified that the confrontation escalated further when the victim threw a brick that shattered their glass door after his girlfriend threatened to kill the victim’s children.
According to her testimony, Braxton became angry, grabbed a baseball bat, and smashed the victim’s windows in retaliation. Moments later, his father, Larry, came upstairs from the basement, asked what had happened, and climbed through the broken window into the victim’s home.
She said Braxton continuously kicked at her front door but never went inside, and that the father and son did not speak or coordinate during the event.
The prosecutor played jurors the grandmother’s 911 call, during which a male voice in the background can be heard saying, “She started that shit.” The grandmother claimed she didn’t recognize the voice and insisted it didn’t belong to her son or her grandson.
The prosecution also questioned the grandmother’s shifting statements, noting that she told police after the shooting she didn’t know where the defendants were, though she now claimed they were at her house.
“I don’t recall,” she responded, saying she had been “out of it” and was under distress since the incident.
The trial is set to continue on Oct. 24 with closing arguments.
