Crime & Safety

Man Convicted in Execution-Style Shooting of 15-Year-Old in Marriottsville

The man along with two women drove the boy to a field in Marriottsville and shot him in the back of the head after kidnapping him in Reisterstown.


A Howard County jury convicted a Nottingham man of attempted first-degree murder, kidnapping and other charges at Howard County Circuit Court on Friday in connection with the execution-style shooting of a 15-year-old boy who was shot in a case of mistaken identity.

Donald George Peoples, 22, was one of three people who kidnapped the boy while he was walking on a sidewalk in Reisterstown. The three people believed the boy had ripped them off in a $200 marijuana deal, according to Wayne Kirwan, the spokesperson for the Howard County state's attorney's office.

Peoples and the other two people, Chiquita Sketers, 22, and Laura Chrisitian Karr, 26, then drove to a house in Randallstown, picked up a .22 caliber rifle and drove the boy to a field in Marriottsville. There they forced the boy out of the car and shot him in the back of the head, according to police.

The boy survived the shooting, but continues to recover from a bullet fragment lodged in his brain stem, according to Kirwan.

Peoples faces a maximum sentence of two consecutive life sentences plus up to 85 years in prison. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 30, 2014.

Sketers previously pleaded guilty to attempted murder earlier this year and was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Karr, who testified against Peoples in court, according to Kirwan, is scheduled to begin her trial on Dec. 2. Karr testified that she was the boyfriend of Peoples and the father of his child during his trial, according to Kirwan.

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