Judge Denies Bail for Mother Accused of Shooting at Teen Daughter on Lyndhurst Street Last Year

By Andrew Michaels - January 12, 2024
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A mother accused of shooting at her teenage daughter last April was denied bail on Jan. 12, despite the victim’s recanted statement.

Theresa Taylor, 43, and her defense attorney, James Sweeting III, appeared before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Jeffrey M. Geller on Friday to argue for her release in connection to the alleged attempted murder of her daughter and her daughter’s temporary guardian on April 23, 2023.

According to Sweeting, this “messy situation” began when his client became upset after finding out her daughter was pregnant. Charging documents state that the victim and her temporary guardian went to her mother’s home on the 400 block of Lyndhurst Street to get some of her belongings last April.

The victim told Baltimore Police Department (BPD) officers that her mother was waiting outside the house with a bat and said, “I got something for y’all.” The defendant went inside her home and returned with a handgun that she then pointed and fired at her daughter.

As both victims ran away, Taylor’s boyfriend and co-defendant, Anthony Mason, took the gun from Taylor, chased after them and fired more shots. Four shell casings were later found at the scene.

On May 1, 2023, court documents state, the altercation continued when the defendant’s daughter called police to report Taylor, Mason and several others outside her home on the 1000 block of Ellicott Driveway, attempting to get the victim to come outside. The victim told police she went to an upstairs window where she saw Taylor get a handgun from a nearby vehicle, wave it in the air and point it at the house.

Taylor’s case is currently being reassigned to another assistant state’s attorney; however, a prosecutor standing in during Friday’s proceeding said the defendant’s daughter identified her mother as the shooter.

Given the defendant’s alleged actions and the seriousness of the allegations, Judge Geller denied the defendant’s bail.

Taylor, who is next scheduled to appear in reception court on April 10, is currently charged with two counts of attempted first and second-degree murder, first and second-degree assault, reckless endangerment, and having a handgun on her person as well as firearm use in a felony or violent crime, having a loaded handgun on her person, having a handgun in a vehicle, discharging a firearm and disorderly conduct.