Man Pleads Guilty to Accidentally Shooting Friend and Co-Worker

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A 24-year-old Washington County man pleaded guilty for accidentally shooting a 22-year-old co-worker in Baltimore City Circuit Court Aug. 8.

Timothy Golliday, of Smithsburg, Md., was charged with having a loaded handgun in a vehicle, having a handgun in a vehicle, having a loaded handgun on his person, having a handgun on his person, discharging a firearm and reckless endangerment for the March 12 shooting.

In exchange for his guilty plea to reckless endangerment, for which the maximum penalty is three years, Golliday will serve one year of unsupervised probation in a period of probation before judgment, meaning he has not been convicted but could have been found guilty.

The prosecution described the shooting as an accidental discharge as Golliday and a co-worker were responding to a BGE work order on the 200 block of West Northern Parkway. Golliday’s co-worker was shot in the stomach, leaving him in a coma. The prosecutor told Judge Timothy J. Doory the victim has recently returned to work and that the victim himself described the incident as a “freak accident.”

Defense attorney Marvin Ochoa explained that Golliday and the victim were good friends and that Golliday has called him weekly and shown consistent remorse.

Judge Doory accepted Golliday’s plea and sentenced him per the plea agreement.