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By
Andrew Michaels
- February 9, 2023
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Homicide defendant Thermon Green had a motive for killing a man who worked for him as a drug dealer in the early morning hours of Nov. 5, 2021. His employee was making money, and he wanted some, according to the prosecutor assigned to the 35-year-old defendant’s trial.
The assistant state’s attorney disputed defense attorney Roland Harris’ argument that Green was not behind the victim’s death as he had no reason to do so. Harris countered that the prosecution’s case was made up of “wouldas couldas shouldas,” leaving behind a lack of evidence.
On Feb. 8, Green was found not guilty of all charges, including murder before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Dana Middleton.
During her closing arguments on Wednesday, the prosecutor told the jury that cell phone evidence showed Green and the victim had met up shortly after 11: 00 p.m. on Nov. 4, 2021, and later had a discussion while the victim was on FaceTime with his girlfriend. Green was agitated, the prosecutor explained, and at one point, he is heard saying, “I’m the one who brings in everything. You are only selling it.”
Green was frustrated that the victim was making a profit, the prosecutor said to the jurors.
While the phone call ended, the confrontation between the defendant and the victim did not, with Green allegedly shooting the victim, who was seated in the driver’s seat. Green is accused of then dumping the victim’s body on the 3900 block of Clifton Avenue before driving the victim’s car to Overland Gardens Apartments in Landover, where the defendant lived.
The prosecutor showed the jury video footage of Green leaving the victim’s body as well as his arrival in Landover as she walked them through that evening.
Harris commented on the victim’s girlfriend’s statement to the prosecution and Baltimore Police, noting that although she said she “saw the killer,” she couldn’t have because she wasn’t there and the phone call ended before the shooting.
“We owe it to [the victim] to find out what happened to him,” Harris said. “All we end up with in every situation is a woulda coulda shoulda.”
Furthermore, the fingerprint recovered from the interior driver’s side door handle was smudged—a fingerprint that the prosecution used against Green during her closing argument.