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Jonathan Keesee
- October 23, 2024
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With Baltimore City Circuit Judge Robert K. Taylor, Jr presiding a prosecutor called two police witnesses on Oct. 22 who analyzed evidence connected to a murder scene.
Daaon Spears, 18, is charged with 31 counts, including first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, attempted second-degree murder, first-degree assault, and second-degree assault as well as various firearms charges for a Jan. 4, 2023, shooting near Edmondson Village Shopping Center that killed 16-year-old Deanta Dorsey.
The witnesses from the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) obtained surveillance footage of a suspect walking around a school near the scene and running away.
The prosecutor described images of collected evidence from outside a Popeyes restaurant and a nearby alley including pictures of headphones, a backpack, DNA swabs, a blooded shirt, and a magazine with some bullets in it.
Defense attorney Brandon Taylor questioned the witness about whether the bullets could fit the magazine.
“It’s a different brand of bullets, not a different type of bullets,” the witness replied.
The footage, which the BPD received from school police at Wildwood Elementary showed a hooded person in all black walking and running around the building while another video depicted two hooded people running away into an alley.
The prosecutor also showed photos said to be the suspects being dropped off near the school by a Lyft driver.