OFFICE OF THE STATE’S ATTORNEY

FOR

BALTIMORE CITY

208 THE CLARENCE M. MITCHELL, JR. COURTHOUSE

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND 21202

Patricia C. Jessamy Phone

State’s Attorney

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PRESS RELEASE

DAMON SIMPSON PLEADS GUILTY TO SECOND-DEGREE MURDER; SENTENCED TO 25-YEARS IN PRISON SUSPEND ALL BUT 15-YEARS

Baltimore, MD – June 25, 2008 – At a hearing today Damon Simpson, 16, of the 3300 block of Brighton Street pled guilty to second-degree murder and use of a handgun in the commission of a crime of violence.

Judge Charles G. Bernstein sentenced Simpson to 25-years in prison suspend all but 15-years, the first five-years to be served without the possibility of parole and five-years probation.

On March 20, 2007 Simpson, then 15-years old, fatally shot Charles Hargrove multiple times in the 2600 block of Rayner Avenue.

Assistant State’s Attorney Diana Smith of the Homicide Division prosecuted this case.

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