Baltimore Man, 28, Convicted Of Murder In Deadly 2019 Shooting

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BALTIMORE, Md. (WJZ) — A Baltimore antheral was convicted Thursday of execution and different charges successful transportation with a 2019 shooting successful Mondawmin that resulted successful the decease of 1 man and injured 3 others.

Donte Orlando Patterson, Jr, was recovered blameworthy of second-degree murder, attempted second-degree murder, conspiracy to perpetrate execution and usage of a firearm successful a transgression of violence, according to the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office.

Patterson, 28, faces up to 200 years successful situation astatine sentencing.

The charges stem from a shooting that unfolded soon aft 11 a.m. April 11, 2019, successful Baltimore’s Mondawmin neighborhood.

Officers investigating a ShotSpotter alert astir gunfire successful the country learned 4 radical had been shot. One of them, Levar Mullen-El, aboriginal died of his injuries. The remainder survived.

Several 9mm and .40-caliber ammunition casings were recovered astatine the scene.

Police aboriginal recovered surveillance video, which showed a metallic Infiniti sedan parkland successful the area. Four radical dressed successful achromatic were seen getting retired of the conveyance and past returning to the car a abbreviated clip later.

Based connected a hunt of constabulary databases, constabulary tracked down that conveyance and linked it to the April 11, 2019, shooting and a abstracted shooting that killed 2 radical the nighttime before.

Patterson was seated connected the hood of the conveyance erstwhile it was recovered astir a week aboriginal connected North Chester Street, prosecutors said.

A warranted hunt of the conveyance recovered a unrecorded .4 caliber round, the aforesaid benignant of ammunition recovered astatine the shooting scene, connected the vehicle’s floorboard.

An investigation of Patterson’s cellphone recovered different grounds that authorities utilized to link him to the crime.

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Sentencing for the 28-year-old is scheduled for Jan. 12, 2022.