BALTIMORE — Baltimore Police on Wednesday arrested and charged a man with first-degree murder for a quadruple shooting April 1 that killed three people.
Police identified 48-year-old Marvelle Worsley as the suspect two days later on April 3 and said he shot a 31-year-old woman who is his neighbor, her father, grandmother and another man regarding a dispute about a parking space and loud music.
Girard Smith, 41, Darlene Briscoe, 69, and her son Charles Murray, 49, died. Briscoe’s granddaughter, the 31-year-old woman, was critically injured.
The shooting occurred around 8:50 p.m. April 1, after Worsley and the neighbor got into a fight earlier in the day about Worsley’s music volume and a parking spot, police wrote in charging documents. Murray, the woman’s father, and Smith talked to Worsley that night but the conversation turned into an argument. Worsley then pulled out a handgun and shot the men, who were pronounced dead at the scene.
Worsley then shot his 31-year-old neighbor multiple times. Police said Worsley shot Briscoe when she came outside after hearing gunshots. She died at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Mayor Brandon Scott, at a news conference shortly after the shooting, said that the crime was “one of the most disgusting things I’ve seen in my time in elected office.”
Worsley’s arrest comes nearly three weeks after he fled from the crime scene at the 3200 block of Woodring Avenue in Northeast Baltimore’s North Harford Road neighborhood. Police said members of the Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force took Worsley into custody at the 1800 block of Harford Road in Fallston.
Worsley’s charges were not reflected in online court records as of Thursday afternoon.
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