Halloween News - Man convicted of second-degree murder in shooting - Baltimore Sun
A Baltimore man was convicted today of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a great-grandfather who was walking through his neighborhood in Dundalk as men with a gun came after egg-throwing boys on the night before Halloween in 2004. The Baltimore County jury acquitted Jose Antonio Bassat, 30, of first-degree murder in the death of the man — who was caught in the gunfire — and of assault and handgun charges related to shooting at one of the egg-throwers. The verdicts capped 13 hours of jury deliberations over two days and four days of testimony at trial. The victim in the case, George Linwood King, was a 73-year-old veteran of the Korean War and a retired Bethlehem Steel worker who was known throughout his Turners Station neighborhood simply as “Mister George. Prosecutors said they will ask for the maximum sentence — 30 years in prison — when Bassat is sentenced in April. More Halloween News