Lamont Edwards

In the pre-dawn hours of Halloween 2021, the life of 19-year-old Antwan Lamont Edwards was cut short in a fatal shooting in the Saint Joseph's neighborhood of Southwest Baltimore. Around 12:01 a.m., Baltimore Police officers were called to the vicinity of Palormo and Leeds Streets after receiving a report of a shooting. Upon their arrival in the 3500 block of Leeds Street, they discovered Edwards suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He was rushed to a nearby hospital, but his injuries proved to be too severe, and he was pronounced deceased at 12:26 a.m. At the time of the shooting, a female was reported to have been with him.

The investigation into the murder of Antwan Lamont Edwards led authorities to Ameer Gittens. Investigators were able to piece together the events of that night by tracking the GPS data from the rental car Edwards had been driving. The vehicle was located about an hour after the shooting near Presstman Street and Tiffany Alley. By cross-referencing the car's location with GPS data from Gittens' Gmail account and his historical call records, police were able to connect him to the vehicle's movements. A significant breakthrough in the case came on November 3, 2021, when Gittens was arrested in connection with a separate homicide in Rosedale. At the time of his arrest, he was in possession of a firearm. Ballistic analysis later confirmed that this was the same weapon used to kill Edwards, as the shell casings found at the scene of his murder matched the gun.

Ameer Gittens was subsequently charged and found guilty of the murder of Antwan Lamont Edwards. In a Baltimore City courtroom, a judge sentenced Gittens to a term of life plus 15 years, with the first five years to be served without the possibility of parole. This sentence was ordered to be served consecutively to two life sentences without the possibility of parole, plus an additional 50 years, that Gittens was already serving for a homicide case in Baltimore County. Three weeks prior to Edwards' murder, Gittens had been involved in the killings of Christopher Walker and his son, Justin Walker, in Rosedale.