Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Barry G. Williams found 49-year-old Lorenzo Thomas not guilty on all charges related to the 2019 fatal shooting of Tyree Lee on Penhurst Avenue, concluding that the state failed to present direct evidence tying Thomas to the homicide.
The case was decided after two days of testimony. During proceedings, Judge Williams commented that the prosecution’s case relied heavily on circumstantial evidence and witness accounts that could not be corroborated by forensic or physical proof.
The state presented testimony from a neighborhood resident who said he observed a chaotic altercation outside an apartment building, during which multiple individuals chased the victim before shots were fired. The witness described seeing suspects pass a gun between them and recalled hearing several gunshots, though he acknowledged uncertainty due to the passage of time…