3 teens plead guilty in connection with fatal Baltimore block party mass shooting

Three teenagers pleaded guilty Monday to charges relating to a shooting at a Baltimore block party last summer that killed two people and injured 28 others, according to prosecutors.

Three teenagers pleaded guilty Monday to charges relating to a shooting at a Baltimore block party last summer that killed two people and injured 28 others, according to prosecutors. Two of the defendants, ages 15 and 16, pleaded guilty to first-degree assault and being a minor in possession of a handgun in connection with the July 2 shooting in the south Baltimore neighborhood of Brooklyn, state’s attorney’s office spokesman James Bentley told CNN. As part of a plea deal, the teens were sentenced to serve five years in detention followed by five years of supervised probation, with an additional 20 years in detention is suspended, Bentley said. CNN is not naming the defendants because they are minors. A third defendant, Mikhi Jackson, who was a minor when the shooting happened but is now 18, was charged with being a minor in possession of a firearm and was sentenced Monday to serve one year in prison followed by two years of supervised probation, according to Bentley. An additional four years of his prison sentence were suspended. A fourth defendant, 18-year-old Tristan Brian Jackson, is awaiting trial on seven counts each of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and attempted murder, as well as 41 other charges. The shooting disrupted an annual neighborhood celebration known as Brooklyn Day. Aliyah Gonzalez, 18, and Kylis Fagbemi, 20, were killed and 28 others had gunshot wounds, police said. Most of the injured ranged in age from 13 to 19, police said.