Man sentenced to 35 years in prison for alcohol-related shooting

By Baltimore Witness Staff
– October 11, 2024
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A 29-year-old was sentenced Oct. 11 in Baltimore City Circuit Court to 35 years in prison for a May 2023 shooting.

According to the Maryland Judiciary website, Judge Lawrence P. Fletcher-Hill sentenced Deon Hudson to 30 years in prison with all but 15 years suspended for attempted second-degree murder, a consecutive sentence of 20 years suspended for all but five years without the possibility of parole, for using a firearm during a serious violent crime. Hudson will also serve a concurrent three-year sentence for carrying a handgun and a one-year sentence for discharging a weapon in Baltimore City. After his release he must serve a five-year probation sentence.

Hudson was convicted in July of the shooting in the 200 block of South Monroe Street on May 28 of last year. Defense attorney Matthew Connell emphasized the role of alcohol in the shooting. According to Connell, Hudson told Baltimore Police Department officers, “This would never have happened if I hadn’t been so drunk.”

The jury acquitted him of attempted first-degree murder.