Testimony continued on Nov. 7 before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Lynn Stewart Mays in the trial of 29-year-old Devontaye Richardson, who is accused of taking part in a 2024 Federal Hill shooting that killed 19-year-old Cameran Holt.
Richardson faces multiple charges, including first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, first-degree assault, and several firearm-related offenses. His co-defendants, 28-year-old Daeshaun Tyreke Clark and 21-year-old Alexis Cancel-Soto, were also charged in connection to Holt’s death. Cancel-Soto was convicted in September of first-degree murder and seven other counts.
The lead detective assigned to the case told jurors that around 3:30 a.m. on Oct. 27, 2024, investigators responded to a shooting in a Federal Hill parking lot. Police found multiple shell casings, a damaged vehicle, and several witnesses who refused to cooperate. A parking lot attendant and a friend of the victim’s both gave statements, while the victim’s sister declined to speak with investigators…