21-Year-Old Faces Life In Prison For Fatal Shooting: Prince George's Prosecutor

PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, MD — A Prince George’s County jury has found 21-year-old Keimoni Sheppard of Upper Marlboro guilty of first-degree murder. Sheppard faces a potential maximum sentence of life plus 20 years in prison.

After a four-day trial and three hours of deliberation, Sheppard was convicted of first-degree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a crime of violence. Co-defendant Brendan Cooley pleaded guilty to first-degree murder before the trial started.

On March 29, 2021, Prince George’s County police officers responded to an address in Suitland for a report of a shooting. They found the body of 30-year-old Marteese Norman in the driver’s seat of a vehicle parked in the driveway at the location. Norman had multiple gunshot wounds to the body and was pronounced dead at the scene of the crime, according to prosecutors.

Video footage captured the shooting and showed a dark-colored Jeep Compass back into the driveway where the victim’s vehicle was parked. Cooley left the vehicle and fired multiple rounds into the driver’s window of the victim’s vehicle. Sheppard then can be seen leaving the passenger side of the Jeep Compass with a handgun and firing multiple rounds into the victim’s vehicle as well. Both suspects re-entered the Jeep Compass and took off, according to prosecutors.