Maryland prosecutors filed hate crime charges against a man accused of killing three people and wounding three more in a dispute over parking.
FILE - Paddington Place is shut down by police as multiple people were shot at a home on Paddington Place in Annapolis, Md., Sunday, June 11, 2023. A man has been charged with hate crimes in the shooting deaths of three people last month in Maryland's capital city the state capital after a dispute over parking that also resulted in three people being wounded. The three people shot to death were Latino; the man accused of shooting them is white.
Maryland's hate crime law applies to crimes that are motivated either in whole or in substantial part to another person's race, color, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, disability or national origin. It enables prosecutors to add years to a sentence, and financial penalties. Smith faces up to life in prison without possibility of parole if convicted of first-degree murder.
Smith surrendered when the police arrived, telling officers he shot the victims because they shot at his house. However, none of the witnesses interviewed saw any of the victims with a firearm, according to the charging documents.
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