6 hours ago
6
Left: Nicholas Giroux (Anne Arundel County Jail). Right: Isaiah Olugbemi (Ever Loved).
A Maryland antheral volition walk the remainder of his days down bars aft helium murdered an up-and-coming boxer implicit large music, authorities say.
Nicholas Francis Giroux, 37, was sentenced Tuesday to beingness successful situation positive 20 years for the murder of his neighbor, 27-year-old Isaiah Olugbemi, according to the Anne Arundel County State's Attorney Office. Giroux pleaded guilty to first-degree execution and usage of a firearm successful a transgression of unit successful February.
Cops with the Anne Arundel County Police Department responded astatine astir 9:44 p.m. to a shooting astatine a townhome connected the 500 artifact of Meadowmist Way successful Odenton, immoderate 20 miles southbound of Baltimore. Cops recovered Olugbemi suffering from aggregate gunshot wounds. He was rushed to a infirmary wherever helium was pronounced dead.
Love existent crime? Sign up for our newsletter, The Law&Crime Docket, to get the latest real-life transgression stories delivered close to your inbox.
Surveillance video captured the shooting. It showed Giroux walking up to the unfortunate and shooting him respective times with a handgun. He past returned and fired 3 much shots, prosecutors said. He walked to his neighboring townhome earlier fleeing successful a van.
Giroux had been beefing with Olugbemi and his household implicit large music, prosecutors said. Roughly 2 weeks earlier the fatal encounter, Giroux confronted the unfortunate implicit large euphony erstwhile they were hosting a cookout. He allegedly pulled retired a handgun but did not constituent it astatine anyone, truthful helium was not arrested.
Cops aboriginal questioned Giroux astir the shooting, and helium confessed to the execution and showed officers wherever helium stashed the weapon helium used. He changeable the unfortunate 14 times, according to Washington, D.C., affiliate WRC.
The suspect besides reportedly accused Olugbemi's household of selling drugs, saying helium did the authorities a favour and "I inactive privation my medal of honor."
But immoderate vigilante defence yet fell apart, acknowledgment to Giroux's jailhouse calls.
"This is what happens erstwhile you f— with my slumber schedule," helium said successful 1 of the recorded calls that was played successful court, per WRC. "You don't aftermath up."
Olugbemi was calved successful New York earlier moving to Maryland portion helium was successful simple school, his obituary said. He was connected the football, wrestling and way teams successful precocious school, graduating successful 2015. Six years aboriginal helium picked up different sport: boxing. He excelled, winning a Golden Gloves nationalist title successful the 203-pound division successful 2024 — conscionable 3 weeks earlier his death.
"He was laser focused and poured his bosom and psyche into it; grooming 3 times regular with an oculus and bosom aimed to the implicit top," his obituary said.
His member Daniel Olugbemi told WRC that "the satellite mislaid a gem."
"I tin archer you that without immoderate doubt. It's the nonaccomplishment for the world, due to the fact that Isaiah had truthful overmuch to offer. And it was conscionable chopped abbreviated astatine the premier of his life," helium said.
The unfortunate besides was a dad.
"Mr. Olugbemi was a begetter and rising prima successful amateur boxing. This was a cruel and senseless execution that took the beingness of idiosyncratic with large promise," State's Attorney Anne Colt Leitess said. "The callousness and deficiency of remorse connected the portion of this Defendant is truly disturbing. He deserves this sentence."
English (US) ·