Only 13 minutes passed from the time Bryan Adams first laid eyes his alleged killer, to when he was shot on a sidewalk in Wilde Lake community.
Twelve Howard jurors Wednesday watched the clock on an April 9 surveillance video from the Crown gas station on Twin Rivers Road — a timetable of the seemingly routine morning that ended with a homicide.
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Antajuan Wilson, 19, is on trial this week for the alleged premeditated murder of Bryan Adams, 20, who was shot to death moments after the two had an altercation at the gas station.
Witnesses said Adams snapped at Wilson for staring at him, not knowing the teen would allegedly return with a gun and fire four shots at Adams.
Adams’ friend, Bryant Keene, told the jury this week that Adams likely scolded Wilson because he was under stress and “going through things.”
Adams’ mother, Stacey Mangana, on Wednesday said her son was still grieving over the death of his 2-year-old son eight months earlier.
Mangana, who serves in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps, said she asked her son to come with her when she was stationed in Germany, but he refused.
To help him, Mangana said she sent him some money to buy a new car.
The day after he purchased his Lexus, Adams ran out of gas on Twin Rivers Road and walked to the nearby station to buy a can of gas.
He was shot to death walking back to the car.
“I feel like I shouldn’t have to serve my country and come home to something like this,” Mangana said.
“… I have three children and now I’ll never get to hold one of them again.”
Wilson could face up to life in prison.
