Man gets 35 years for killing corrections officer
A Northeast Baltimore man was sentenced yesterday to 35 years in prison for killing a corrections officer in an armed robbery in May 2007. Brandon Wall, 22, of the 2000 block of Hillenwood Road, had pleaded guilty to felony first-degree murder for killing Lt. Perry Brooks, 48, as he sat in his 2004 Nissan Altima in the rear driveway of his home, one block away from where Wall lived. The killing was not related to Brooks' work in the Central Booking and Intake Center. Prosecutors said Wall approached Brooks, with the plan to rob him, at 2:30 a.m. May 25, 2007. Wall shot Brooks, and shell casings recovered at the scene matched those recovered from the shooting and robbery of a Morgan State University professor earlier that month. The professor, who was wounded in the attack, identified Wall from a photographic array. Wall later confessed to playing a role in the robbery and murder of Brooks. Baltimore Circuit Judge John A. Howard issued the maximum sentence permitted in Wall's plea agreement. Wall is not eligible for parole for the first five years of his sentence. If he violates probation after his release, he faces up to a life sentence in prison.
