In February 2022, two men drove a Nissan Rogue — allegedly stolen at gunpoint in Washington about a month earlier — to Mondawmin in West Baltimore, where authorities say they shot two men.

Seven days later, they used the same car to gun down Tayvon Scott in a drive-by shooting outside his Dundalk home, authorities said. The 43-year-old died at a hospital.

And on May 12, 2022, about four months after the alleged carjacking in Washington, the same men drove the Nissan to Baltimore’s Barclay neighborhood, where they shot and killed Yahmell Montague and Angel Smith, the former’s pregnant fiancee, authorities said. Doctors were able to deliver the baby before Smith died.

The Nissan was just one example of an allegedly stolen car that Cornell Moore and Keith Russell, both 38, are accused of using to carry out violent crimes throughout Baltimore over an approximately 18-month stretch beginning in October 2020, according to a new indictment in Baltimore Circuit Court charging them with seven homicides and three nonfatal shootings.

The indictment, handed up Sept. 25, says Moore and Russell were hit men and part of a sophisticated “criminal organization” that used “shell limited liability corporations, bank accounts in minors’ names and money applications to avoid detection of payment derived from violent and illegal acts.”

“The Enterprise seeks, among other things, to eliminate its competition and to financially profit from committing acts of murder and carjacking,” prosecutors wrote. “The proceeds directly benefit members of the Enterprise.”

Online court records do not list attorneys for Russell, of Silver Spring, or Moore, of Howard Park, in the gang case indictments. Lawyers representing them in separate murder cases in Baltimore and Baltimore County declined to comment.

The indictment charges Moore and Russell with 41 counts, including seven counts each of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. They also face three counts of attempted first-degree murder, a range of firearms offenses and several charges under Maryland’s gang statute, such as participating in a criminal organization.

The case is being handled by the Baltimore State’s Attorney’s Office’s Major Investigations Unit, which was reinstituted under Democratic State’s Attorney Ivan Bates.

A spokesperson for Bates declined to comment ahead of a media briefing about the case planned for next week.

The indictment resembles that of a federal racketeering charging document, listing overt acts allegedly committed by the gang. Here are some of the crimes of which authorities accuse them:

On Oct. 3, 2020, Moore allegedly shot and killed David Reid in the 2400 block of East Preston Street in Baltimore.

On Sept. 21, 2021, Moore and Russell — using a Honda CR-V authorities say they bought after stealing a man’s identity — are accused of driving into Baltimore and fatally shooting Shabro Meredith in the 1800 block of North Smallwood Street.

On Dec. 2, 2021, Moore and Russell drove a Ford Taurus they stole in Crofton to the 1300 block of North Gilmor Street in Baltimore, where they shot and killed 31-year-old Rashad Dendy, according to the indictment.

On Feb. 8, 2022, Moore and Russell, using the same Ford Taurus, drove to 1200 block of North Fremont Avenue and fatally shot 26-year-old Tyree Davis, authorities said. Later the same day, they abandoned the vehicle at the Gwynn Falls Trailhead and set it ablaze.

On May 3, 2022, the indictment says Russell and Moore drove a Honda CR-V that they stole days earlier to the 700 block of West Baltimore Street, where they shot a woman.

On June 13, 2022, members of the criminal organization stole a Honda CR-V at gunpoint in Washington, authorities say.

The next day, members of the organization drove the Honda to Baltimore, according to the indictment. At one point, the driver of the Honda got into Russell’s van, and they allegedly began to flee from police. During the chase, the van crashed into another car, drove off the road and drove against traffic “in an attempt to elude police,” the indictment says.

Moore and Russell were already being held without bond in connection to murder charges in separate cases, but Baltimore judges ordered they remain behind bars in light of the gang indictment. The Baltimore Banner first reported the new indictment.

A March indictment in Baltimore Circuit Court charges Moore with murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the fatal shooting of Meredith. His attorney in that case, Robert Cole, declined to comment Tuesday. It’s unclear if Cole is representing Moore in the more recent indictment.

In the older case, Cole argued that a judge should dismiss the charges against his client because it had taken too long to bring the case to trial, violating his rights to a speedy trial.

Russell is charged in a November 2023 indictment in Baltimore County with eight counts, including first-degree murder and several firearms offenses, stemming from the March 2, 2022, fatal shooting of Scott. Russell’s attorney in that case, John Cox, declined to comment.

Cox is not representing Russell in the more recent indictment at this time.

In the Baltimore County case, Cox asked a judge to throw out all evidence police obtained from Russell’s cell phone. He said officers in Prince George’s County, who pulled over a car he was riding in, “activated (Russell’s) phone, bypassed the password by dialing 911, and had the operator relay the phone number associated with the defendant’s phone.”

Cox argued that the officers getting access to the phone by dialing 911 amounted to an illegal search because they didn’t have a warrant to get that information.