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100-year sentence upheld in killing of 2 Montgomery Co. teenagers
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100-year sentence upheld in killing of 2 Montgomery Co. teenagers
Abigail Constantino | aconstantino@wtop.com
August 11, 2022, 10:31 PM
Maryland’s highest court upheld the 100-year sentence of a man who helped kill two Montgomery County high school students on the eve of their high school graduation. ... The Maryland Court of Appeals affirmed the second-degree murder convictions of Roger Garcia, 24, of Germantown.
Garcia was the fourth man convicted in the killing of Northwest High School students Shadi Adi Najjar, 17, and Artem Ziberov, 18, who were found in a running Honda Civic on Gallery Court in Montgomery Village in 2017.
Najjar and Ziberov had been lured there on June 5, 2017, under the notion that they were selling spare tickets to graduation. Najjar was shot four times; Ziberov, 10. The police found 30 shell casings at the site.
Garcia, who was sentenced in 2020, argued whether a valid legal foundation exists to convict a defendant of second-degree intent to kill, as an accessory before the fact. ... The Court of Special Appeals held that it is conceivable for an accessory before the fact to aid, on impulse and without premeditation, another in the commission of a homicide with the intent to kill. On Thursday, the higher Court of Appeals affirmed that decision.
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WTOP’s Rick Massimo contributed to this report.
Abigail Constantino
Abigail Constantino started her journalism career writing for a local newspaper in Fairfax County, Virginia. She is a graduate of American University and The George Washington University.
aconstantino@wtop.com
100-year sentence upheld in killing of 2 Montgomery Co. teenagers
Abigail Constantino | aconstantino@wtop.com
August 11, 2022, 10:31 PM
Maryland’s highest court upheld the 100-year sentence of a man who helped kill two Montgomery County high school students on the eve of their high school graduation. ... The Maryland Court of Appeals affirmed the second-degree murder convictions of Roger Garcia, 24, of Germantown.
Garcia was the fourth man convicted in the killing of Northwest High School students Shadi Adi Najjar, 17, and Artem Ziberov, 18, who were found in a running Honda Civic on Gallery Court in Montgomery Village in 2017.
Najjar and Ziberov had been lured there on June 5, 2017, under the notion that they were selling spare tickets to graduation. Najjar was shot four times; Ziberov, 10. The police found 30 shell casings at the site.
Garcia, who was sentenced in 2020, argued whether a valid legal foundation exists to convict a defendant of second-degree intent to kill, as an accessory before the fact. ... The Court of Special Appeals held that it is conceivable for an accessory before the fact to aid, on impulse and without premeditation, another in the commission of a homicide with the intent to kill. On Thursday, the higher Court of Appeals affirmed that decision.
{snip}
WTOP’s Rick Massimo contributed to this report.
Abigail Constantino
Abigail Constantino started her journalism career writing for a local newspaper in Fairfax County, Virginia. She is a graduate of American University and The George Washington University.
aconstantino@wtop.com