Baltimore teen to serve 75 years in carjacking that injured two elderly women

Luke Parker | The Baltimore Sun | April 22, 2026 | Original Source

A teenager from Baltimore was sentenced to serve 75 years in prison on Monday after taking part in a 2024 carjacking that severely injured two elderly women in Randallstown.

Court records show Reginald Belton, 19, pleaded guilty in Baltimore County Circuit Court to first-degree assault and armed carjacking, both felonies, as well as a firearm misdemeanor late last year.

This week, Baltimore County Circuit Judge Robert Cahill issued the maximum punishment on each count — 25, 30 and 20 years, respectively — fulfilling the prosecutors’ vision of justice for the “heinous” attack.

Belton’s attorney, Donald Wright, said he wasn’t surprised about the disposition because Monday’s sentencing hearing was one of the most emotional of his career.

However, he felt the punishment was excessive. Unlike another co-defendant, Belton accepted responsibility for his actions, Wright said, adding his client was not the driver that inflicted the most severe injuries.

“I thought he expressed genuine remorse and didn’t force the state to try him and force the victims to relive this episode by having to testify about it,” the lawyer said.

On Aug. 21, 2024, a 66-year-old woman was unloading groceries from her car on Brattle Road when three masked men confronted her with a handgun, according to the county’s State’s Attorney’s Office.

Authorities said when they jumped inside the vehicle, they dragged the woman on the ground as they drove away and ran over her 87-year-old mother.

Both suffered significant injuries, prosecutors told the court. The younger woman suffered a brain bleed, a fractured toe and multiple abrasions, while her mother was taken to Shock Trauma with a fractured pelvis, a collapsed lung, fractured ribs, and multiple breaks in both legs.

Baltimore County State’s Attorney Scott Shellenberger said police used a vehicle tracker, license plate readers and surveillance footage to find the stolen car and identify a suspect.

Darius Wolfe, 20, was convicted as a co-defendant last month by a jury after roughly 20 minutes of deliberations, prosecutors said.

He is scheduled to be sentenced before Cahill on July 31.

Belton plans to ask a three-judge panel to review Cahill’s decision, as well as submit a motion for sentencing modification, Wright said.