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By
Ziqi Zhou
- November 19, 2024
Court
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Daily Stories
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Non-Fatal Shooting
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Shooting
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Suspects
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Two codefendants in an attempted murder and home invasion case appeared before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Jeffrey M. Geller on Nov. 18, while a third was in mental health court.
Kateira Womack, 32, accepted a plea offer of ten years suspending all but time served, with five years of supervised probation and prohibited from contacting the victims involved in a conspiracy to take part in a home invasion. Womack is represented by Tony Garcia.
Phillip McCoy, 32, and Brian Strawder, 33 , face more than two dozen charges for an incident on Oct. 19, 2023, including multiple counts of attempted first and second-degree murder, conspiracy to first-degree murder, assault, home invasion, burglary and weapons charges.
McCoy asked to discharge his attorney, Brandon Thornton, citing “we are not on the same page”.
Judge Geller referred the matter to Judge Melissa K. Copeland, who allowed McCoy to replace his attorney and rescheduled his trial for Feb. 3, 2025.
Strawder, who did not appear in the court on Nov 18, was in mental health court for an assessment.
According to charging documents, a witness to the shooting was at a casino, met Womack and invited her to his home where he lived with the victim on the 800 block of North Eutaw Street. Later that evening, as Womack was leaving the residence, the witness said he turned around and saw two men—later identified as McCoy and Strawder—coming toward him from the kitchen.
The witness told officers with the Baltimore Police Department that one of the two men was armed and the victim was shot twice in the thigh as the witness and the victim ran up the stairs to escape.