BALTIMORE, MD—A Baltimore City judge has sentenced Ameer Gittens to life plus 15 years, with the first five years without the possibility of parole. The sentence will be served consecutively to the sentence he is currently serving for a Baltimore County homicide case. Gittens is currently serving two life sentences without the possibility of parole, plus 50 years for the murders of Christopher Walker and his son, Justin Walker, in Rosedale.

The sentencing stems from Gittens’ fatal shooting of Antwan Lamont Edwards in the Saint Joseph’s neighborhood of Southwest Baltimore on Halloween 2021.

Police responded to a report of a shooting in the area of Palormo and Leeds streets around 12:01 a.m. on October 31, 2021. They found Edwards, 19, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds in the 3500 block of Leeds Street. He was pronounced dead at the hospital at 12:26 a.m. Edwards was with a woman at the time of the shooting.

Investigators determined that Edwards was driving a rental car from Enterprise Rental Company. Using GPS data, police located the vehicle an hour later near Presstman Street and Tiffany Alley. By tracking information from Gittens’ Gmail account and call detail records, investigators were able to link his location to the vehicle’s location.

Gittens was arrested on November 3, 2021, in Baltimore County in connection with a separate homicide that occurred in Rosedale. He was arrested with a firearm that was found to be consistent with the shell casings from Edwards’ homicide.

Rita Wisthoff-Ito, assistant state’s attorney, prosecuted the case. State’s Attorney Ivan J. Bates said, “There is no doubt that the State of Maryland is significantly safer with this defendant incarcerated for life. The utter disregard for human life demonstrated in this case underscores the seriousness of the defendant’s actions. My thoughts are firmly with the family members and loved ones who will be permanently affected by these crimes. I want to express my deep gratitude to ASA Wisthoff-Ito and the Baltimore Police Department for their unwavering commitment to delivering justice and closure in this case.”

This article was written with the assistance of AI and reviewed by a human editor.

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