Ian Christian Kennedy Simmons, 36, is scheduled to stand trial on Dec. 12 for allegedly firing on and wounding two TGI Friday’s employees in March.
Simmons is charged with attempted first- and second-degree murder, first-degree assault, firearm use in a violent crime, and reckless endangerment in connection to the March 7 shooting.
Simmons was working as an armed security guard for a TGI Friday’s restaurant located on the 2400 block of Liberty Heights Avenue at the time of the incident. While in the restaurant’s parking lot, he allegedly discharged his firearm into the air with people nearby and striking two restaurant employees.
One victim was able to capture a clear photograph of a person said to be the suspect with her cellphone.
“The picture I took is the security guard who shot me,” she was heard saying in body-worn camera footage.
Defense attorneys Christoper O’Meara and Katherine Ball are set to represent Simmons at trial before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Kimberly C. McBride.
