Man Pleads Guilty to Carjacking, Shooting 67-Year-Old Victim in 2023

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A Baltimore City Circuit Court judge sentenced attempted homicide defendant Karon Alston to a decade behind bars after the parties reached a plea agreement in connection to an armed carjacking in 2023.

On May 10, the 28-year-old defendant accepted the prosecution’s plea offer of 10 years for first-degree assault and a concurrent five years without parole for firearm use in a felony or violent crime. Alston was initially charged with attempted first and second-degree murder as well as robbery, assault, theft, drug and weapons charges for the incident on Feb. 15, 2023.

Judge Melissa M. Phinn presided over Friday’s presiding, with defense attorney Isabel Lipman representing the defendant.

Alston’s plea comes after he was arrested for carjacking a 67-year-old man shortly after 10 p.m. last year while the victim was getting out of his car on the 3500 block of Northway Drive. During the robbery, Alston shot the victim, who suffered a graze wound to his stomach, and then ran away, the prosecution said.

The defendant was arrested on March 29, 2023 without incident.