A 37-year-old man has been sentenced to life plus 20 years in prison for fatally shooting a man on Greenmount Avenue in East Baltimore in 2005, according to city prosecutors.
Raymond Handy of the 500 block of E. 30th St. also received a 14-year sentence, to be served consecutively, for violating terms of his probation from a 2002 drug distribution conviction, of which he had served one year of a 15-year sentence.
Prosecutors said Handy shot Mark C. Jones, 40, in the 5900 block of Greenmount Ave. in the afternoon of May 1. Jones, one of 18 siblings who lived in the 500 block of E. 26th St., died later at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
City prosecutors did not give a motive for the shooting, but said three members of the victim's family were in the courtroom and gave victim impact statements at Thursday's sentencing hearing.
They said Handy had been a lifelong friend of the victim "and grew up with the victim's family."