Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Cedric Scott was found guilty of attempting to kill a man during a drug deal.
A Gwynn Oak man pleaded no contest to attempted murder in the shooting of a Columbia man outside of Sam’s Mart in Oakland Mills in January of 2012. Cedric Lamont Scott, 39, was sentenced to 17 years in prison on Tuesday after his plea, according to Wayne Kirwan, a spokesperson for the Howard County state's attorney's office. Police said Scott fired a shot at Marcus Lee as Scott and three others were attempting to sell a large amount of marijuana to Lee outside Sam’s Mart in the 5800 block of Stevens Forest Road on Jan. 11, 2012. Lee escaped into the Sam’s Mart, while Scott grabbed the marijuana and ran, according to police. Lee was taken to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center and later recovered, according to police. The …
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
A Columbia man was sentenced to 70 years after he pleaded guilty to first-degree murder before the conclusion of his retrial.
The retrial of a Columbia man previously convicted of first-degree murder came to an abrupt end on Monday when the man pleaded guilty to first-degree murder at Howard County Circuit Court. The sixth day of the retrial was set to get underway, when prosecutors and the defense attorney announced that a plea agreement had been reached. That was when Antajuan Lawntee Wilson, 23, pleaded guilty to the 2008 Wilde Lake murder he was previously convicted of in December of 2008, according to Wayne Kirwan, spokesperson for the Howard County state's attorney's office. The retrial had been ordered by the Maryland Court of Appeals after it was determined the jury in Wilson's 2008 trial had not been properly advised. After pleading guilty, Wilson was …
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Defense says shooting of Bryan Adams is not first-degree murder during retrial of Antajuan Lawntee Wilson.
During opening statements of the retrial of a Columbia man convicted of first-degree murder in 2008, it was announced by the prosecution that the murder weapon had been found during the dredging of Lake Kittamaqundi. The weapon was not present in the original 2008 trial of Antajuan Lawntee Wilson, 23, whose retrial is underway at Howard County Circuit Court. Wilson had been convicted of killing Bryan Antoine Adams Jr. outside the Wilde Lake Village Center. During opening statements Tuesday, Assistant State's Attorney Doug Nelsen said workers dredging the north end of Lake Kittamaqundi found a handgun. The dredging operation took place in 2010 and 2011. Nelsen said officials from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms later matched …
Monday, January 7, 2013
Antajuan Wilson was convicted of the murder of a Columbia man in 2008, but a higher court ordered a retrial after an error.
A Columbia man convicted of a 2008 Wilde Lake murder will be retried beginning this week. Antajuan Lawntee Wilson, 23, of Columbia, was convicted of the first-degree murder of Bryan Antoine Adams Jr., 20, who was shot to death outside the Wilde Lake Village Center in April of 2008. However, the conviction was overturned after Maryland's highest appellate court ruled the jury instruction in the trial was insufficient, according to Explore Howard. The court ruled the jury was not instructed to take into account that Wilson may have been in a "kill-or-be-killed situation" and could have been acting in "imperfect self-defense", which is grounds for a reduced sentence, according to the report. Wilson has been held in prison since his 2008 …
Teachers across the country have been attending self defense classes post-Sandy Hook, according to news reports.
Jeff Mount of Krav Maga Maryland said the key to survival in an active shooting scenario is decisiveness in the moment. "To freeze is the most dangerous option," said Mount, 30, the director of operations and lead instructor at Krav Maga Maryland, a self defense school in Columbia. "It creates an extreme sense of helplessness that pervades the circumstance." After following news of recent tragedies like the Sandy Hook shooting, Mount said his business wanted to do something. As a result, Krav Maga Maryland is offering local teachers the opportunity to learn self defense techniques to ward off an active shooter for free at a seminar on Jan. 12. Mount described Krav Maga, pronounced like Krahv Mah-gah, as a self defense system designed to …
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
The armed robbery happened as the business was closing, police said.
Two employees of Zips Dry Cleaning in Town Center were tied up and held at gunpoint by two armed robbers inside the business around 8 p.m. on Friday, according to police. The employees were not injured, but shaken up, according to the evening manager Kevin Kim. "I was just thinking about how to stay safe," said Kim on Tuesday. Just before the robbery on Friday, Kim said he was taking trash out of the rear door to the dumpster when he was confronted by an armed masked man who was waiting for him at the door. Kim said the men had entered through the back door. Police said another employee was already tied up with zip-ties inside the business, when Kim was brought to the back and also tied up. The two suspects stole wallets from the …
Monday, October 15, 2012
Ronald Lee McLeod of Columbia and Daniel Alex Savage of Glen Burnie were both charged with first-degree murder for allegedly shooting two people outside a Pasadena house party.
Anne Arundel County police have charged two teens in a shooting that occurred outside a home in the 7000 block of Outing Avenue in Pasadena early Saturday morning, according to a press release. Police said Ronald Lee McLeod, of Columbia and Daniel Alex Savage of Glen Burnie—both 18—were charged with first-degree murder in the Pasadena shooting on Saturday morning that claimed the life of 21-year-old Matthew Morrow and injured one other. Police responded to a shooting in the 7000 block of Outing Avenue at 1:30 a.m. Saturday. Upon arrival, officers found two victims suffering from gunshot wounds. The victims were transported to area hospitals where police said Morrow died from injuries sustained in the shooting. The second 20-year-old …
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
More than six months after a Pennsylvania state trooper shot Daryl Berry on the turnpike, state police ruled the shooting justified.
Pennsylvania State police determined that a trooper used the appropriate level of force when he shot and killed a Columbia man in March, according to a state police spokesman. Corporal Richard Dean told Patch on Thursday that state police had closed the case and found that Trooper Marshall Kephart was facing an attack when he shot and killed Daryl Berry on March 6. The shooting occurred on the turnpike in Brush Creek Township in south-central Pennsylvania. Dean said that the Fulton County District Attorney's office, which also investigated the shooting, agreed with the state police's findings. Fulton County DA Travis Kendall did not respond to a request for comment on Monday. Dean said the report of the police's internal investigation…
Friday, August 10, 2012
Police said a Baltimore man was not armed when he was killed by a Howard County police officer, but threatened to kill himself and officers.
The man who was shot and killed by a Howard County police officer on Thursday evening had threatened to kill himself and police officers, but was not armed when he was shot, according to police. Percy Holland, 32, of 586 Preston Street in Baltimore, reportedly shouted at police "You're going to have to kill me or I'm going to kill you" and "I have a gun, I will use it," according to police. Howard County Police located Holland at a Columbia home near the 9000 Block of Constant Course after Baltimore police issued a warrant for his arrest. Baltimore police were searching for Holland after he allegedly held his estranged girlfriend at gunpoint and assaulted her early on Thursday morning. The estranged girlfriend managed to escape and call …
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
New trial date will be set Aug. 13 for Quinnton Brown, charged in the alleged kidnapping, attempted murder and robbery of a Germantown man.
After days of deliberations, the jury considering charges against a Columbia man on trial for allegedly kidnapping, robbing and trying to kill a Germantown man could not agree on a verdict. The jury was deadlocked after 5 to 8 hours of deliberations last week, Montgomery County State’s Attorney Office spokesman Seth Zucker told Patch on Monday. A new trial date will be set for Quinnton Brown, 25, of the 8900 block of Footed Ridge, during a hearing Aug. 13, Zucker said. Brown was named as one of at least three men suspected in a Jan. 22 incident at a Germantown apartment complex. Police said the suspects approached a man in a parking lot at gunpoint, forced him to withdraw money from an ATM, then marched him into the woods and fired a …
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