Victim’s FaceTime Call Places Murder Defendant at the Scene, Prosecutor Says

By Andrew Michaels - July 15, 2022
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A 34-year-old Hyattsville, Md. man will have his murder case heard before a jury in the new year when a Baltimore City prosecutor says she will reveal evidence that shows the defendant and victim arguing in a vehicle moments before the victim was fatally shot and his body dumped alongside the road.

Thermon Green and his defense attorney, Roland Harris, appeared in Baltimore City Circuit Court on July 15 for a bail review hearing before Judge Philip S. Jackson. Green is charged with first-degree murder and five weapons charges in connection to the shooting last November.

According to the prosecution, the victim worked as a drug dealer for Green, both of whom were talking inside of a vehicle on Nov. 5, 2021.

At this time, the victim was on FaceTime with his girlfriend when the prosecutor said Green is heard saying, “I’m the one who brings in everything. You are only selling it.”

The phone call then abruptly ends, she said, just as Green and the victim were heard arguing.

The victim was shot in the head four times.

The prosecution informed Judge Jackson that video surveillance shows Green getting out of the passenger’s side of the vehicle and dumping the victim’s body in the road before driving away. The victim’s car was later recovered near the defendant’s residence. Fingerprints were also recovered from inside one of the car door handles.

Earlier in the proceedings, Harris told the court that the case was “wholly circumstantial.”

“It’s like a blackhole at the point in time [when the shooting occurred],” the defense attorney said as he explained that the only identification of Green was from someone seeing him in the background of a FaceTime call.

Harris also questioned the video surveillance mentioned by the prosecution.

“I’ve watched the video and you can barely see anything coming out of the car,” he said, requesting his client’s release on private home detention.

Judge Jackson sided with the prosecution, agreeing that Green was a danger to the community.

Green, whose last conviction was in Prince George’s County for first-degree assault in April 2011, is scheduled for a jury trial on Jan. 31, 2023.