The two-week murder trial against a Laurel man accused of fatally stabbing 28-year-old Deontae Swingler at a birthday party in Severn last year ended Friday afternoon after jurors spent roughly an hour and a half deliberating several homicide counts.
The two-week murder trial against a Laurel man accused of fatally stabbing 28-year-old Deontae Swingler at a birthday party in Severn last year ended Friday afternoon after jurors spent roughly an hour and a half deliberating several homicide counts.
Lawyers began making their arguments to jurors Tuesday in a two-week trial against a 41-year-old Laurel resident accused of stabbing Deontae Swingler to death during a birthday party in Severn on Jan. 11, 2021.