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By
Sage Cho
- August 8, 2025
Court
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Daily Stories
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Non-Fatal Shooting
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A Baltimore woman who allegedly shot herself in the thigh in March following an altercation in West Baltimore will be held without bail due to the “severe public safety risk” she poses.
Candice Holden, 40, is charged with first- and second-degree assault, felony firearm use in a violent crime, reckless endangerment and related handgun charges for allegedly pulling a gun on a married man and woman on the 3000 block of Harlem Avenue after the man of the pair asked her to remove her pet dog’s feces from the front area of his residence.
The March 15 incident left Holden with a gunshot wound in her left thigh after her firearm discharged following the alleged de-escalation of a physical altercation between herself and the woman who lived at the residence.
Defense attorney Augustine Okeke asked that Holden be released on her own recognizance and allowed to serve home detention due to her lack of prior convictions.
The prosecution requested that no bail be set for Holden, calling the shooting “a particularly scary set of circumstances” and calling the defendant a flight risk.
Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Troy K. Hill ultimately sided with the prosecution and ordered that Holden be held without bail.
The case is slated for trial beginning Sept. 8.