Jury selection began Monday for the first of three defendants accused of kidnapping and shooting a Baltimore man before dumping his body in the woods near an Annapolis middle school last year.

Opening arguments are expected to begin Tuesday morning in the murder trial of Marquis Mayo, a 35-year-old Baltimore resident held without bail since April. According to the Maryland Judiciary, the trial before Anne Arundel Circuit Judge Cathleen Vitale is scheduled to last until Friday.

Mayo’s defense attorney, Brandon Taylor, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Police have accused Mayo of taking part in an abduction and home invasion in southwest Baltimore shortly after midnight, March 28, which ended in the death of David “Duke” Winchester Jr.

According to charging documents, witnesses and a confidential source told authorities Mayo, his sister, Monae Fincher, and her ex-husband, Jamar Fincher — both of whom are in custody and scheduled for trial later this year — were involved in the killing.

According to charging documents, Jamar Fincher finished serving a prison sentence for armed robbery approximately three weeks before the shooting.

A father of 10 and grandfather of six, Winchester’s body was found face down in the woods near Wiley H. Bates Middle School, close to its track. Responding hours after Winchester had been reported as kidnapped in Baltimore, Annapolis Police said he had been shot twice in the back of the head.

Unable to identify Winchester at first, Annapolis detectives learned about his abduction from Baltimore Police later that day.

According to charging documents, two suspects went to the home of the victim’s mother and told her that they had Winchester in the trunk of their car. Demanding to come inside, both brandished weapons, including an AR rifle, and threatened to kill his mother and his sister, whose children were upstairs, police said. According to charging documents, the sister was chased upstairs, and two gunshots pierced the door she was behind. The suspects then left in a blue vehicle.

Detectives tracked the vehicle to the Bates Middle School parking lot. Police said the car arrived there an hour after the home invasion. Reviewing CCTV footage, police said they observed “two quick flashes of light.”

Annapolis police continued tracking the car after it left the middle school, and obtained information that it was registered to Monae Fincher, according to charging documents.

Police wrote in charging documents that Monae Fincher lived approximately two minutes away from Winchester’s mother.

All three defendants have been charged with first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and kidnapping, as well as several firearm offenses, according to the Maryland Judiciary.

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