Suspect Pleads Guilty to 2023 Liberty Heights Shooting

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Justin Glod, 19, entered a guilty plea before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Hope Tipton on April 8, accepting five years in prison.

The prosecution offered Glod ten years, suspending all but five, with three years of supervised probation for first-degree assault. The offer included five concurrent years and gun offender registration for the charge of firearm use in a felony or violent crime. Glod will also be prohibited from contacting the victim.

Glod was originally charged with attempted first- and second-degree murder and assault, firearm use in a violent crime, reckless endangerment, and several other firearm-related charges in connection to the Dec. 12, 2023 shooting of a male victim.

Judge Tipton allowed Glod to count 484 days of incarceration time toward his sentence, dating back to the incident date, and waived his court and probation fees.

According to charging documents, Mondawmin Mall officers responded to reports of gunshots near Liberty Heights Avenue on Dec. 12, 2023. Upon arrival, the police located a victim suffering from gunshot wounds and transported them to the hospital for treatment.

The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) found from surveillance footage that the shooter wore bright yellow shoes. Glod’s attire matched the description in the video, so officers searched his person and seized a Polymer80 firearm with no serial number and seven live rounds in the chamber.

Defense attorney Judit Otvos, asked Judge Tipton to recommend Glod be placed in Patuxent Institution, a maximum security correctional facility that provides clinical treatment and educational programming to inmates with “severe character disorders” or “a history of substance dependency.”