Police: 1 dead, another injured in Glen Burnie shooting

Two Baltimore men were shot, one fatally, early Friday morning in the hallway of a Glen Burnie apartment building, according to the Anne Arundel County Police Department.

Approximately 12:50 a.m., officers responded to the 7800 block of Bruton Court, where they found the two men suffering from gunshot wounds, according to a news release. One of them, 20-year-old Lamarge Antoine Prettyman Jr., was pronounced dead at the scene by fire personnel. The second, a 23-year-old man, was transported to an area hospital with an injury that was not life-threatening, police said.

Few details were available Friday about the nature of the shooting. Homicide detectives determined Prettyman was one of three men inside the apartment building on Bruton Court when someone shot at them. The third person was uninjured, police said.

Prettyman’s body has been transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore, police said. He is the 18th homicide victim in Anne Arundel County this year, and the 10th homicide case investigated by county police. Annapolis has recorded eight homicides this year.

The county’s last homicide took place nearly a month ago and also involved two young people.

On July 27, around 10 p.m., Robert Clark and a 17-yearold boy were shot on the 1900 block of Copeland St., in Annapolis. Clark, 16, died at the scene, while the other teenager was flown to a shock trauma center in critical condition, city police said.

Bernie Bennett, an Annapolis Police spokesperson, said Friday that the 17-year-old is alive, but that he had no other details on his condition.

With 16 confirmed cases by the start of July, Anne

Arundel County had seen as many homicides halfway through 2023 as it had in all of 2022.

This year’s homicide counts include two shootings that have resulted in multiple deaths. The last time more than one person in the county was killed during one incident was in May 2021.

On May 5, George Edward Huff, 42 of Riva, shot his wife and another man at the Annapolis Town Center before killing himself, Anne Arundel Police said.

Huff and his wife Alexandra Abbot Huff, 34, died in a parking lot between a bagel store and a hotel while George Michael Petrullo, 38, of Annapolis, managed to drive himself to a nearby fishing shop, looking for help. He died at a local hospital.

Police have confirmed George and Alexandra Huff were married but have not released information on Petrullo’s relationship with the couple.

The next month, six people attending a June 11 birthday party in Annapolis were shot after a parking dispute between neighbors escalated. Three of them — Nicholas Mireles, his son Mario Mireles and friend Christian Segovia — died. Their families, considering the history between them and suspected gunman

Charles Smith, have called the killings a hate crime.

Smith was arrested the night of the shooting, surrendering to police as they pulled into the Wilshire neighborhood. After retaining two private attorneys, Smith was indicted on 42 charges in July.

Soon thereafter, public defender Anne Stewart-Hill was entered to represent him. Denis O’Connell, another public defender, joined the case Aug. 21.

Anne Arundel County State’s Attorney Anne Colt Leitess will prosecute the case, along with Assistant State’s Attorney Jason Steinhardt.