In a news release, Bates said the charges against the women would have been dismissed via the city’s citation docket program after the completion of community service had the three been cited rather than arrested.
The defendant asked to be sentenced immediately after a jury found him guilty Tuesday of three counts of murder in the killings of 24-year-old Shiand Miller, who was about eight months pregnant, and her 3-year-old daughter, Shaniya Gilmore, a spokesperson for the Baltimore State’s Attorney’s Office said in an email.
However, instead of granting a brief postponement, Judge Melissa Phinn demanded the state move forward with a new council. When the state refused, the case was dismissed. A call, local attorney and former city prosecutor Jeremy Eldridge deemed “highly unusual.”
“Justice has been served,” Eggleston’s aunt, Sanobia Wilson, said of the verdict. “To sit here and put up with this for six years — six long years — I can’t even begin to tell you how the struggle was. It was devastating.”
Sixteen-year-old Tavon Scott was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and gun charges in the death of Timothy Reynolds near the Inner Harbor last year.
"So, when you see three different prosecutions for violent crimes resulting in convictions in high profile cases, it tells the criminal defendants and those in Baltimore City that are looking to commit crime, that we're back living in a world of consequences," said Jeremy Eldridge, a former Baltimore City prosecutor and now defense attorney.
Fruh was a security guard working for Allied Universal, the security company for the apartments at the location where many students live. He had just celebrated his 19th birthday before the killing on August 31, 2022.
Tyrone West died during a traffic stop conducted by Baltimore City Police that also involved Morgan State University campus officers in 2013.
April Gaskins will be sentenced on Sept. 14 after Baltimore Circuit Judge Barry G. Williams convicted her on charges ofcharges of reckless endangerment and firearm access by a minor.
