2.22.12: Thompson Convicted, Sentenced for Killing Former Girlfriend's New Boyfriend
February 22, 2012 -- For fatally shooting his former girlfriend's new boyfriend, Dwayne Thompson pled guilty yesterday to first-degree murder and a handgun violation and was sentenced to life in prison, with all but 45 years suspended.
At roughly 11 a.m. on Sunday, May 30, 2010, Thompson unexpectedly entered the Southwest Baltimore home of his former girlfriend, Lanette Smith, and went to the rear second-floor bedroom. Inside, he found Smith and her new boyfriend, Alvin B. Martin III, asleep. Thompson began screaming and cursing, waking them both. When Martin sat up in bed, Thompson fired seven shots at him, striking the 28-year-old multiple times in the chest, back, and left arm. Martin was pronounced dead less than an hour later at the University of Maryland R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center. No one else in the home at the time of the shooting — including six children, one of them Martin's six-year-old son — was physically injured.
Law enforcement tracked Thompson down in Miami, Florida, where he arrested on July 16, 2010.
Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Sylvester B. Cox also sentenced Thompson, 38, to a concurrent 20-year term of imprisonment for the handgun offense.
The State's witnesses and the victim's family were present for yesterday's plea and sentencing. Assistant State's Attorney Andrea Mason prosecuted the case.