A 37-year-old Baltimore man is set to serve 50 years behind bars after pleading guilty to first-degree murder and firearm use in the death of Marvin G. Moore, 42, at McCulloh Homes in West Baltimore over one-and-a-half years ago.
Multiple members of Moore’s family attended the Jan. 12 sentencing hearing, including the victim’s adoptive mother and the mother of his 13-year-old son, both of whom delivered tearful impact statements before defendant Fred Q. Woods, Jr. and Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Kendra Y. Ausby.
“It’s hard. Even though Marvin wasn’t my biological child, everyone who knows me and Marvin [knows] that’s my child,” said Moore’s adoptive mother. “He was taken from us unnecessarily. It hurts. I’ll never be able to pick up my phone and hear him say, ‘Mother, what’s up?’ And it hurts because another Black person took him.”…