Maximum sentence for man who fled Baltimore Police, killed pedestrian and crashed into building
“I can’t minimize childhood trauma that you went through or that you faced,” Middleton said. “But that does not give you the right to hurt other people.”
“I can’t minimize childhood trauma that you went through or that you faced,” Middleton said. “But that does not give you the right to hurt other people.”
Morris along with Omarion Anderson and William Clinton III each pleaded guilty, while William Holloman was found guilty at trial after pleading not guilty.
The Creative Justice art contest will ask students to bring creativity, originality, and relevance to the creative justice theme with their art pieces.
Cell phone and firearm evidence were behind the prosecution’s argument throughout the trial, focusing on Gittens’ Google account that showed him traveling the same route as the victim’s car. The defendant was accused of shooting the 20-year-old man on 3500 block of Leeds Street on Oct. 31, 2021, before taking his car.
Jurors reached a unanimous decision on Wednesday when they found Darrien Gaither guilty of attempted first-degree murder, first-degree assault, having a loaded handgun on his person and having a handgun in his vehicle as well as three counts of reckless endangerment and two counts of firearm use in a felony or violent crime and having an unknown handgun. Gaither was found not guilty of another attempted first-degree murder charge and attempted second-degree murder.
"This community needs as much help and support as it can have," Bates said. "We love our children. We want to make sure they have the supplies they need for school."
“Now more than ever, residents have been touched by crime. It may not be a violent crime, but they’ve been robbed or had their car stolen, or their neighbor or someone else they know has,” Bates said in an email. “In many of these instances, the culprits were either juveniles or identified as juveniles, leaving the victims with little to no information and even less recourse.”
"I try not to judge people by their worst acts but nobody in any community will be safe while you are free," Judge Robert Taylor told Billingsley.
Jason Billingsley is likely to spend the rest of his life behind bars for the brutal attempted murder of April Hurley and her boyfriend, Jonte Gilmore, at their apartment on Edmondson Avenue.