A first-degree murder defendant went before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Jennifer B. Schiffer to accept a plea deal.
Kedric Green, 27, is charged with first-degree murder, firearm use in a felony violent crime, firearm possession with a felony conviction, having a loaded handgun on his person and having a loaded handgun in his vehicle from an incident that occurred on May 10, 2023, on the 4500 block of Wakefield Road.
Green was presented with a plea deal on July 24, that included life, suspending all but 45 years, for first-degree murder and five years of supervised probation. He would also get 20 years for firearm use in a felony violent crime. These two sentences would run concurrently. Green’s defense attorney, Matthew Connell, accompanied Green as he accepted the plea. .
According to documents from the District Court of Maryland,Baltimore Police Department officers responded to a report of a shooting. At the scene, the victim, 29-year-old Darren Shipley, was found in the driver’s seat of a Ford Escort suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.
In surveillance video footage,a suspect exited his car and shot Shipley. A detective who had a previous encounter with Green as a shooting victim identified him as the suspect. The police looked through Shipley’s phone and found several messages between Shipley and Green as well as confirmation through location tracking that they were both at the crime scene.
