The prosecution’s first witness testified to seeing people running between parked cars following the shooting. Josh Insley, Horton’s defense counsel, like Zeit, argued there was no evidence that linked his client to the murder, pointing out that there were several people seen fleeing the scene. However, there was no video of the murder or witnesses. The victim was shot by someone in a Volvo, said Zeit. Zeit told jurors they would see a video of another potential suspect selling drugs with the victim without Brown being present. While witnesses may have seen Brown running from the scene, she said, no one testified to seeing Brown shoot the victim. The case was built on “speculations,” she said. The defendants hunted the victim down in Brown’s mother’s car and ambushed the victim, he said.īrown’s defense counsel, Linda Zeit, began her opening statement by saying her client had nothing to do with the victim’s death. “The defendants were jealous of the victim,” said the prosecution. The prosecution began opening statements by saying the victim, Cordelle Bruce, was loved and respected by his friends and family. Belvedere Avenue.īrown, who was 19 years old at the time of the incident, is also charged with possession of a firearm as a minor, while Horton is charged with possession of a firearm.
14, 2020.Ĭhristopher Brown, 22, and Daran Horton, 23, are charged with first and second-degree murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, manslaughter, first and second-degree assault, conspiracy to commit first-degree assault, reckless endangerment, use of a firearm during a felony violent crime, having a loaded handgun on person, illegal possession of a regulated firearm, and having a handgun on person in connection to the fatal shooting of Bruce on the 1100 block of E. Alpert, describing how she believed the two men befriended Cordelle Bruce, 31, over the years and then ambushed him for money on Jan. Two homicide co-defendants listened as the prosecution presented her opening statement before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Paul E.
“They finessed their way into the victim’s life,” said the prosecutor during her opening statement to the jurors on Sept.
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