Wednesday, December 21, 2011
The men were accused in the beating and shooting death of a former Tulane running back in August 2010.
Update: Charles Baxter was acquitted of all charges and Shamire Moore was found guilty of second-degree assault and conspiracy to commit second-degree assault after nearly eight hours of deliberation by the jury. Both men were charged with first-degree murder, first-degree assault, first-degree conspiracy, armed robbery and use of a handgun in commission of a felony in the August 2010 shooting of Julian Kelly. The state alleged that Baxter, 24, and Moore, 20, conspired with Tyshon Jones, 19, to beat Kelly before he was shot by Jones. Attorneys for Baxter and Moore maintained that their clients had a fight with Kelly, but were not involved in the shooting. "I don't understand the conspiracy because I don't know who he would have …
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Jurors heard Kelly describe the attack to police.
Jurors heard Julian Kelly's account of his assault and shooting Friday during a 12-minute video recorded from a police officer's vehicle. The conversation may have been one of Kelly's last, as police and family testified that he was unable to vocalize after arriving at the hospital. Kelly was robbed and beaten by a group of males while walking home from a bus stop near the 14000 block of Castle Boulevard on Aug. 21, 2010, according to police. He was shot four times and died of the injuries on Sept. 4, 2010. He was 27. Montgomery County Police identified Tyshon Jones, 19, as the "trigger puller." Baxter, 24, Moore, 20, and a juvenile male, 16, were charged with first-degree murder last September in connection with the crime, which police …
Friday, December 16, 2011
Friends of the juvenile suspect testified Thursday.
Two teenage boys who were with one of the suspects testified in the trial of Charles Baxter and Shamire Moore Thursday. The defendants are accused in the beating and shooting of Julian Kelly last August. Kelly was robbed and beaten by a group of males while walking home from a bus stop near the 14000 block of Castle Boulevard on Aug. 21, 2010, according to police. He was shot four times and died of the injuries on Sept. 4, 2010. He was 27. Montgomery County Police identified Tyshon Jones, 19, as the "trigger puller." Baxter, 24, Moore, 20, and a juvenile male were charged with first-degree murder last September in connection with the crime, which police said was the conspiratorial work of a neighborhood gang, "38 Mob." Jones has yet to …
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Medical examiner testified about victim's wounds.
The sister of shooting victim Julian Kelly testified Thursday in the murder trial of Charles Baxter and Shamire Moore. Both men are accused of first-degree murder in connection with Kelly's death last August. Kelly was robbed and beaten by a group of males while walking home from a bus stop near the 14000 block of Castle Boulevard on Aug. 21, 2010, according to police. He was shot four times and died of the injuries on Sept. 4, 2010. Montgomery County Police identified Tyshon Jones as the "trigger puller." Baxter, Moore and a juvenile male were charged with first-degree murder last September in connection with the crime, which police said was the conspiratorial work of a neighborhood gang, "38 Mob." Jones has yet to be captured by police…
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Two witnesses told jurors that Moore did know Kelly's shooter, contrary to the defense attorneys' version of the story.
Prosecutors set out to show jurors Wednesday that Charles Baxter and Shamire Moore, both accused of participating in the murder of Julian Kelly last August, were acquainted with the man police say actually fired the gun at Kelly. Kelly was robbed and beaten by a group of males while walking home from a bus stop near the 14000 block of Castle Boulevard on Aug. 21, 2010, according to police. He was shot four times, twice in the head and twice in the chest, injuries that caused his death on Sept. 4, 2010. Montgomery County Police identified Tyshon Jones as the "trigger puller." Baxter, Moore and a juvenile male were charged with first-degree murder last September in connection with the crime, which police said was the conspiratorial work of …
Attorneys for murder defendants Charles Baxter and Shamire Moore said their clients had nothing to do with the shooting of Julian Kelly.
Attorneys for Charles Baxter and Shamire Moore argued Tuesday that their clients should not be on trial for murder. Baxter and Moore face first-degree murder accusations in the shooting death of Julian Kelly last August. Barbara Graham, Moore's lawyer, told jurors that Kelly and her client did argue and fight that day, but Moore wasn't involved in a mob beating. As the two men fought, Kelly pinned Moore to the ground, Graham told jurors, and Baxter joined in to help his friend. "When they got away from him, they were done," Graham said. Graham, along with Gwyn Hoerauf, counsel for Baxter, said that Kelly was bigger than the defendants and he was successful in overtaking them in the beginning of the fight. She told jurors that the …
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Jury selection continued through Tuesday morning.
Update, 5:57 p.m.: After a day and a half of interviews, 12 jurors and two alternates were seated in the trial of Charles Baxter and Shamire Moore Tuesday afternoon. Both men are accused of robbing and shooting Julian Kelly while he walked home from a bus stop. The jurors, eight men and six women, were instructed not to discuss the case with anyone, including other jurors. Prior to opening statements, Judge John W. Debelius denied a motion by the state to disallow cell phones in the court room. Kathy Knight, chief of Montgomery County state's attorney's office Gang Prosecution Unit and counsel for the state, argued that the defendants' family and friends, many of whom were in the courtroom Tuesday, might disseminate information about the…
Friday, October 7, 2011
A key witness for the state did not show up for trial.
The trial of two men charged in the August 2010 shooting death of Julian Kelly has been pushed back for the third time, according to the Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s office. A third suspect remained at-large. Kelly was robbed and beaten by four young males while walking home from a bus stop near the 14000 block of Castle Boulevard on Aug. 21, 2010, according to police. Montgomery County police charged Charles Baxter of the Briggs Chaney area of Silver Spring, Shamire Moore of New Carrollton, MD, Tyshon Jones of Martinsburg, WV, and a fourth juvenile male in the case. Kelly struggled and was eventually shot by Jones, say police. The case was ruled a homicide when Kelly died at the University of Maryland Medical Center in the …
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