A prosecutor on Wednesday described the execution-style slaying of three men in Remington in 2005 as a brutal, cold killing of some of Baltimore?s most vulnerable people.
“This was a one-sided gun fight,” prosecutor Donald Giblin told a Baltimore City Circuit Court jury.
Now, the 12 men and women of the jury must decide the fate of Derrick Taylor, 27, who stands accused of murdering Nathan Gulliver, 49, Antwon Arthur, 38, and Steven Matthews, 36, at a drug and alcohol recovery house in the Remington area of Baltimore on Jan. 10, 2005.
Taylor?s co-defendant, Corey McMillon, 29, will be tried at a later date. McMillon is already serving a life sentence for a previous murder conviction.
Giblin said jurors should not ignore the testimony of the deceased men?s friend Shawn Brown, who was shot three times but survived, and who identified Taylor as one of the gunmen.
“I saw Derrick Taylor kill Antwon,” Giblin said, repeating Brown?s testimony.
Defense attorney Sharon May tried to cast doubt upon allegations that Taylor is the man who killed the three men.
She said the case against Taylor is filled with “assumptions, lies, mistakes and omissions” and contained “no physical evidence and no scientific evidence.”
May said Brown could not postively identify Taylor because he was medicated during recovery from his gunshot wounds. She added that he needs eyeglasses.
“He squinted,” May said of Brown as he looked at Taylor?s picture at trial. “He couldn?t see it, and it was right in front of him.”
Prosecutors allege that Taylor was angry at Arthur because of about $125 owed to him and his girlfriend, Lisa Owens, causing Taylor and McMillon to kill the three men.
