Witness takes back murder accusation in Shock Trauma worker’s death

A day after dismissing double-murder charges against two men, Baltimore prosecutors asked a judge to convict them of intimidating the witness whose account had led to the dropped charges. The witness, Marnae Lewis, testified that she erroneously identified Antwon Morton as one of the men who fatally shot her boyfriend, Christopher Camphor, and bystander Brandon Finney, a Maryland Shock Trauma technician, in September 2014 at a downtown bus stop. Morton’s attorney Russell Neverdon found surveillance footage that showed Morton in a different part of town at the time of the incident, leading prosecutors on Thursday to drop charges against Morton and co-defendant Samuel Rogers. But Lewis remains adamant that Morton and Rogers were the men who came to her house hours after the shooting and made threats, and prosecutors are continuing to pursue witness-intimidation charges that could send the men to prison for up to 20 years. Morton and Rogers elected Friday to have a bench trial, which is being heard by Circuit Judge Stephen Sfekas. — late Saturday, emergency officials said. The incident occurred in the 6600 block of Security Blvd. as an officer responded to a report of an assault at Hot Skates on Whitehead Road in the Woodlawn area. Desaree Tasha Blick, 18, of the 100-block of Courtland Road, and Stephon Nathaniel Beale, 18, of the 6700-block of Park Heights Ave., have been identified as the pedestrians struck by the police car. The infant has been identified as Deomonte Terrell Blick, 9 months old. All three are expected to survive their injuries. The officer involved was not injured. Investigators said the officer had lights and sirens activated, according to police. The time of the crash and details surrounding the initial call for an assault were not immediately available. —