A 19-year-old is standing trial this week for a pair of 2023 shootings in Baltimore, separated by about 24 hours, that left two people dead and six others wounded.

Jabre Griffith, of the city’s Mount Winans neighborhood, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder and six counts of attempted first-degree murder, as well as conspiracy to commit murder, assault and firearms offenses.

The first shooting authorities accused Griffith of participating in happened shortly after midnight March 23, 2023, at a gas station in 2800 block of Edmondson Avenue. That’s in the Midtown-Edmondson neighborhood.

Officers found a 15-year-old boy and four other men, their ages ranging from 18 to 24, injured from gunfire, according to police. Medics declared 33-year-old Ernest Hall, a legendary boxer who ran a Mount Vernon gym, dead at the scene. Hall had been shot in the chest and leg, according to charging documents.

“I need y’all help,” one of the victims said, according to footage from the body camera of Officer Tyler Coss Y Leon played in court Monday.

“Where are you hit?” Coss Y Leon, the first officer to arrive at the scene, could be heard responding.

Assistant State’s Attorney Tonya LaPolla said that video showed three masked shooters get out of a car and fire a volley of 50 shots.

Crime scene technician Lauren Riehl testified she got to the shooting scene around 12:50 that morning, placing yellow placards next to fired cartridge casings and taking pictures of gas pumps, an ice cooler and windows pockmarked with “bullet defects.”

Less than 24 hours after police arrived at the shooting on Edmondson Avenue, at around 11:20 p.m., dispatchers sent officer Alhaji Fofana to respond to the Pizza Boli’s in the 5400 block of York Road, which is in Homeland, for reports of a shooting.

Upon arrival, Fofana testified he couldn’t find anyone who’d been shot, but that he and other officers shined their flashlights around the parking lot to look for evidence.

“We saw blood and then a whole bunch of shell casings,” Fofana said in court.

While Fofana and his colleagues searched for evidence, dispatchers notified them about two people being treated for gunshot injuries at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital. Police said doctors pronounced 26-year-old Micah Strong dead there, and a 25-year-old woman who was also injured by gunfire was being treated for her injuries.

Crime scene technician Amanda Falade said in court she was with one of the officers when they recovered a handgun with an extended magazine loaded with 28 rounds and one fired cartridge in the chamber. They found the gun under a patch of bushes.

LaPolla said the second shooting was captured on video, too, and that the footage showed two masked shooters who fired 20 times.

“How do you identify a masked person? It looks like these two people are going to get away with it,” LaPolla told jurors. “But there’s no such thing as a perfect murder.”

She said detectives tracked a car used in the first shooting to a small park on Franklintown Road, where another vehicle, a white Infiniti, was waiting.

“All of these people start switching vehicles,” LaPolla said.

The white Infiniti was registered to Griffith, she said. Detectives were able to trace Griffith’s car from the park to the area of the second shooting.

Defense attorney Michael Tomko called LaPolla’s opening statement an “interesting story,” saying the state’s case was made up of “dark videos” and “patchy phone records.”

“This is really a case of who done it,” Tomko said, adding that the state’s case relied entirely on technological evidence. “There are no individuals, people from the community, who will say, ‘I saw Mr. Griffith.’”

Tomko encouraged jurors to find his client not guilty at the end of the trial.

LaPolla said a judge gave police permission to place a GPS tracker on Griffith’s car, which led them to Dunbar High School, where Griffith was a student.

Detective Anthony Lansey, at the time a member of the Baltimore Police Department’s Warrant Apprehension Task Force, testified Monday that he followed Griffith into school on June 6, 2023, and arrested him with the help of Baltimore City School Police. Lansey said he took Griffith’s cell phone and gave it to homicide detectives.

LaPolla said police analyzed Griffith’s phone, including GPS data that shows generally where a phone was at certain times.

Griffith’s phone, she said, “turns off before each murder. But prior to turning off and after each murder, that phone always tracks with the defendant’s car.”

LaPolla said firearms examiners with the police department determined three guns were used at the gas station shooting, while two were fired outside of the pizza shop. The examiners compared casings from the shooting scenes and determined that the .40 caliber casings at both scenes were fired by the same gun.

Police also arrested a 15-year-old in connection to the Edmondson Avenue shootings. Court records for minors charged with crimes are kept confidential in Maryland unless a judge rules they will be tried as an adult. The status of the case of the teen charged in the same case as Griffith is unclear.