BALTIMORE (AP) — A man who was awaiting trial for murder when he strangled his cellmate to death in Baltimore’s jail was sentenced Thursday to life without parole. After Staron, 35, had been charged in an apparently random stabbing attack, jail administrators housed him in a cell with Javarick Gantt, a deaf man facing relatively minor charges who relied on sign language to communicate. Gantt’s death in October 2022 raised significant concerns ab…

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A man has been sentenced to life without parole for fatally strangling his deaf cellmate while he was in Baltimore’s jail awaiting a murder trial

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Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A man has been sentenced to life without parole for fatally strangling his deaf cellmate while he was in Baltimore’s jail awaiting a murder trial. Thirty-five-year-old Gordon Staron was sentenced Thursday after he pleaded guilty to strangling Javarick Gantt. A jury had already convicted him in the earlier case, which prosecutors called a seemingly random axe murder. Gantt was a deaf man facing relatively minor c…

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BALTIMORE—A man who was awaiting trial for murder when he strangled his cellmate to death in Baltimore’s jail was sentenced Thursday to life without parole.
After Staron, 35, had been charged in an apparently random stabbing attack, jail administrators housed him in a cell with Javarick Gantt, a deaf man facing relatively minor charges who relied on sign language to communicate. Gantt’s death in October 2022 raised significant concerns about ope…

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BALTIMORE (AP) -- A man who was awaiting trial for murder when he strangled his cellmate to death in Baltimore's jail was sentenced Thursday to life without parole.

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A Harford County man has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for strangling his deaf cellmate to death in a Baltimore jail two years ago while awaiting trial on charges from a fatal stabbing in the city. Gordon Zacharie Staron, 35, pleaded guilty in October to first-degree murder in the Oct. 9, 2022 killing of his cellmate, Javarick Gantt. The plea came days after a city jury convicted Staron of first-degree murder…

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Harford County man gets life in prison for strangling deaf Baltimore cellmate to death, fatally stabbing man at bus stop

The man charged with the murder of his cellmate in a Baltimore jail and the murder of a 63-year-old homeless man was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday. Gordon Staron, 35, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the strangulation death of 34-year-old Javarick Gantt in October 2022. Gantt was deaf and mute. Staron was being held on murder charges in another case when he killed Gantt at the Baltimore jail. Prosecutors said Staron armed himse…

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A 35-year-old Harford County man convicted of killing a Baltimore homeless man with a hatchet — and then while jailed in that case strangled his deaf and mute cellmate — was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Man gets life without parole in 'axe murder' and Baltimore jail strangulation death

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