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Tipped that Darryl Martin Anderson's year on the run had taken him to Birmingham, Ala., U.S. Marshals set up outside an apartment complex Wednesday morning and watched as his car and its Maryland plates backed into a parking space and an unknown man walked inside.
Marshals could see people inside the apartment peeking out through the blinds at them as they prepared to rush in. A woman emerged and said Anderson wasn't inside.
But within moments, the 25-year-old man Baltimore police had dubbed "Public Enemy No. 1" appeared with his hands up. After Anderson emerged, with his distinctive dreadlocks and forehead tattoos, police say they found a .40-caliber Glock and two bulletproof vests inside.
Maryland U.S. Marshal Johnny Hughes declared in a statement that the suspect "never stood a chance."
It took authorities a year to find Anderson, who is accused of committing several violent crimes while on the run.
Police have accused him in a killing in Parkville in July 2012. They say he opened fire on a group of women June 27 in Northeast Baltimore, killing one and critically injuring another. They say he forced his way into a Northeast Baltimore home three days later, shooting two men and injuring a third during a robbery.
Police in Baltimore County were also exploring possible links between Anderson and a home invasion in Rossville that occurred Monday morning.
Anderson has been charged in the three shootings. He was being held at a detention facility in Birmingham pending extradition. He has no current attorney listed in online court records, and attempts to reach family at his last known address in Belair-Edison were not successful.
Anderson's criminal history includes four prior convictions, including one for knocking out a woman's front teeth after robbing her corner store and another for stabbing a man six times in a club.
Maryland Deputy U.S. Marshal David Lutz described Anderson as a brazen fugitive. With local authorities plastering his image on news broadcasts and social media, he didn't alter his appearance. Instead, Lutz said, investigators were told he walked around Baltimore neighborhoods brandishing a handgun with his shirt off, revealing the "Thoroughbred" tattoo across the top of his chest.
Lutz said Anderson kept at least two guns on him at all times, according to accounts gathered by investigators, and had said he "would rather die than go back to prison."
The hunt for Anderson intensified as police labeled him their top priority. Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts and his security detail checked addresses and vacant homes over the weekend.
On Tuesday afternoon, dispatchers told officers Anderson could be in the area of Greenmount and North avenues in East Baltimore.
Lutz wouldn't discuss how Baltimore investigators tracked Anderson.
"We do a lot of gumshoe, old-school police work until we get our bad guy," he said.
Anderson had apparently been in Alabama for "some time," though the exact duration was unclear. U.S. Marshals in Birmingham got involved in the case earlier this week, according to Alabama's U.S. Marshal, Marty Keely.
Keely said the marshal service had an "overwhelming presence" outside the apartment.
"Once the individuals looked out the window, they could quickly see there was nowhere to go," he said.
Batts told reporters this week that Anderson was "an enforcer or a hit man for the Black Guerrilla Family," the powerful gang police have linked to the city's recent violence. Lutz said investigators learned Anderson had a falling out with a segment of the gang, however, and his status was unclear.
Lutz said Anderson was aided in his escape by a "network of associates" who were hiding him and supplying him with money.
Area prosecutors said they were discussing who would try Anderson first.
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake hailed the arrest. She said the police department planned to launch more intense searches for the city's most dangerous criminals.
"In Baltimore, our issue is getting illegal guns off the streets, period, and making sure we're locking up those who mean to terrorize our community," she said. "Now we're looking to put a new No. 1 on the list and go after that person."
Anderson has a long criminal record. At age 15, he was charged with attempted first-degree murder, use of a handgun, assault, and intimidating a juror or witness. A rap sheet included in his court file shows the case was dismissed.
In September 2003, when he was 16, police found him crouched in the back seat of a car with the alarm sounding. A rear window was broken and Anderson was sitting in the glass.
He told the officers he had a gun, and they recovered a .380 semi-automatic handgun from his left front pocket. Records show he received a three-year sentence, with all but five days suspended.
Two years later, he was found with a handgun again, and was sentenced to four years for possession of a firearm by a person younger than 21. Corrections records show he was released in February 2007 on mandatory supervision.
Police arrested Anderson again in June 2007 and charged him in the robbery of a corner grocery store in the 3200 block of Chesterfield Ave. in his neighborhood. As the owner was closing up for the night, he said, a man came up behind him, put a gun to his face, and demanded money.
But the owner didn't have any money, records show, and Anderson forced the man toward his car, then got inside and attacked his wife, knocking out two of her front teeth.
The suspect, identified through a photo lineup as Anderson, then stole her Gucci purse and cell phone. He pleaded guilty in July 2008 — his third conviction as an adult — and received a 12-year sentence with all but three years suspended.
By December 2009, he was released on mandatory supervision until he was charged in connection with a stabbing at Club K on West 21st Street and his parole was revoked.
Court records show Anderson approached a couple who were dancing, took his shirt off and punched Gerald Thomas in the head.
The club's bouncers eventually broke up the fight and Anderson ran away, records show. Thomas soon realized that he had been stabbed in the back six times, leaving him with a collapsed lung.
Anderson was charged with attempted murder. He pleaded guilty in February 2011 to first-degree assault, his fourth conviction.
He was sentenced to 13 years in prison, but the judge suspended all of that sentence beyond the time he had served ahead of the trial. His attorney could not be reached for comment.
Baltimore prosecutors have said the sentence was due in part to the fact that witnesses had recanted and been uncooperative.
In the Baltimore County killing, police say, Anderson shot up a vehicle parked outside Tee Bee's Bar while Derrick Gamble, 31, was seated inside.
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Anderson's photo was released to the media. On June 27, police say, Tierra Fallin became involved in a dispute with another woman in the 3300 block of Elmora Avenue. Police say Fallin summoned Anderson and another man and told him to "do what y'all do."
Authorities say Anderson then opened fire on a group on a porch, killing 20-year-old Gennie Shird and injuring two other women. One of them, 24-year-old Cierra Williams, was struck in the head. Police say she is in critical condition.
Police have since obtained a warrant for Anderson for a double shooting that occurred June 30 in the 5800 block of Moore's Run Court. Police say two men were found with gunshot wounds and a third was suffering from some type of laceration.
The victims told police they had been inside a home when a man identified as Anderson entered, showed a handgun, and demanded property. A police spokesman did not have additional details.
Baltimore Sun reporters Ian Duncan and Luke Broadwater contributed to this article.
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