Less than a year after the incident, on March 10, Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Kimberly C. McBride sentenced 27-year-old Unique Thorn to 35 years of incarceration for her role in a homicide that the prosecution described as an act of “street justice.”
On March 18, 2025, Shy’Keema Turner, 31, was found on the 700 block of E. Preston Street with a gunshot wound to her back. She was later pronounced dead. That same day, detectives identified Thorn as a suspect and brought her in for questioning. During her interview, Thorn admitted to shooting Turner but added that she did so in response to the victim stabbing her after the two engaged in a physical altercation earlier that morning.
Area surveillance footage shows Thorn firing at Turner as the victim fled down the street. Members of Thorn’s family also recorded the incident as it unfolded. In a clip later uploaded to multiple social media platforms, the family can be heard saying, “Yeah, shoot her.”…