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By
Alexander Taylor [former]
- July 17, 2024
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A Baltimore City Circuit Court jury found a 40-year-old man committed the May 6, 2023, murder of Nathaniel Mack on the 2100 block of Hollins Street.
On July 15, the jury found Steven Gibson guilty of first-degree murder, firearm use in a felony or violent crime and having a handgun on his person.
During the trial before Judge Paul E. Alpert, the prosecutor showed the jury video footage from the area around the murder and offered that Gibson’s cell phone was pinged in the area around the time of the murder.
Gibson’s defense attorney, Rebecca Kavanagh, argued that Baltimore Police Department (BPD)detectives did not investigate the murder to the fullest extent. She said that police did not follow up on eyewitness statements that may have led them to other suspects.
She also said that another man in Gibson’s tier at the Baltimore Central Booking and Intake Center had claimed that he killed Mack, but the prosecutor refuted that by saying that claiming knowledge of a murder could be an asset to someone in prison.
Gibson’s sentencing has not yet been scheduled.