‘I Take Full Responsibility,’ Defendant Tells Judge for 2020 Murder Outside The Garden Bar

By Andrew Michaels - August 2, 2023
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A Baltimore City Circuit Court judge sentenced 34-year-old Kevin Hall to 18 years of incarceration on Aug. 2 for his role in the murder of Antoine Crowder nearly three years ago.

“I take full responsibility for what happened,” Hall said before Judge Jennifer Schiffer, the prosecution and his defense attorney, William Buie III, on Wednesday morning.

In May, the defendant initially agreed to the prosecution’s plea offer of life, suspending all but 18 years, and five years of supervised probation for conspiracy to first-degree murder as well as a concurrent 15 years, the first five years without parole, for firearm use in the commission of a violent crime.

“I can’t even put into words their loss,” the prosecutor said of Crowder’s family, who was not present on Wednesday.

“The problem with Mr. Hall is he got involved with some tough people,” Buie said later in the proceeding.

Judge Schiffer imposed the sentence, waiving all associated supervision and court fees. The judge also agreed to recommend Hall for the Patuxent Institute and informed him that he will be required to register as a gun offender upon his release.

According to charging documents, Hall and his co-defendant, 40-year-old Terrell Carter, were driving a Hyundai Elantra and pulled up alongside Crowder, who was inside an Acura Legend with three other victims in a parking lot outside of The Garden Bar on the 4800 block of Erdman Avenue on Oct. 10, 2020. Someone in the co-defendants’ vehicle opened fired on the Acura, killing Crowder.

Hall was initially charged with two counts of first-degree murder; four counts each of firearm use in the commission of a violent crime, having a handgun on his person and having a handgun in a vehicle; three counts each of attempted first and second-degree murder, first and second-degree assault and conspiracy to first-degree murder; and a single count of illegal possession of a firearm.