Man, 22, pleads guilty to '07 murder of officer

November 17, 2008

A 22-year-old Northeast Baltimore man has pleaded guilty to the murder last year of a corrections officer during an armed robbery outside the officer's home, according to the Baltimore state's attorney's office. Brandon Wall, 22, of the 2000 block of Hillenwood Road pleaded guilty Friday to felony first-degree murder, use of a handgun in the commission of a violent crime and robbery with a deadly weapon in the May 2007 killing of Lt. Perry Brooks, 48. There was no indication that the killing was related to Brooks' work in the Central Booking and Intake Center. Under the plea agreement, Wall faces a maximum sentence of life in prison, with all but 35 years suspended, when he is sentenced Jan. 22 by Baltimore Circuit Judge John A. Howard. Prosecutors said Wall and another man approached Brooks with the intention of robbing him at 2:30 a.m. May 25, 2007, as he sat in his 2004 Nissan Altima in the rear driveway of his home in the 1900 bock of Hillenwood Road. Wall shot Brooks, and shell casings recovered by investigators matched those recovered from the shooting and robbery of a Morgan State University professor earlier that month, authorities said. The professor, who was wounded in the attack, identified Wall from a photographic array, and Wall later confessed to the robbery and murder of Brooks, prosecutors said.

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Man, 22, pleads guilty to '07 murder of officer

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