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By
Sage Cho
- August 14, 2025
Attempted Murder
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Court
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Daily Stories
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Homicides
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Non-Fatal Shooting
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Shooting
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Victims
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“It’s been 866 days — long days — that justice has been waiting,” the prosecution said on Aug. 14, the final day of Marvelle Antonio Worsley’s mass shooting trial. She called it “disgusting” when defense attorney Tony Garcia pinned the blame for the incident on the sole survivor among the four victims shot on the 3200 block of Woodring Road on April 1, 2023.
Worsley, 51, faces multiple counts of murder, attempted murder and firearm use in a crime of violence, as well as several related handgun charges in connection to a fatal shooting that took the lives of 41-year-old Girard Smith, 49-year-old Charles Murray, and Murray’s 69-year-old mother, Darlene Briscoe. Murray’s daughter survived after sustaining gunshot wounds to her abdomen so serious that she required an ostomy bag. Smith was her boyfriend.
Garcia attempted to rationalize the shooting by claiming self-defense, arguing the surviving victim provoked the conflict herself when she threatened to bring armed family members to Worsley’s doorstep following a dispute over parking. He called the mass shooting “a horrible, horrible tragedy over something ridiculous,” and stomped and screamed throughout his closing statement.
The prosecution rejected Garcia’s framing, noting three victims sustained gunshot wounds to their heads, an indication of intentionality. She called the incident “an intentional massacre of family” aimed at hurting the survivor.
“Just because you’re loud doesn’t mean you’re right,” she told Garcia and the jury.
Arguments regarding parking and the volume of music played at Worsley’s house riddled the fraught relationship between the neighboring families, multiple witnesses noted.
The day of the incident, the surviving victim allegedly threatened to bring her father and boyfriend to Worsley’s residence after he parked “too close” to her own vehicle.
Worsley claimed he was in a rush to get inside his home at the time, having just left GameStop with a PlayStation 5 for his son’s eighth birthday.
During the trial, he testified that he spat on the woman’s face following the threat, ordered his wife and child to remain upstairs as the conflict escalated and told the woman, “B*tch, if you send someone to my house, I’mma kill him.”
Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Jennifer B. Schiffer presided over proceedings.
The jury is currently deliberating.