Guilty Plea Made in 2014 Robbery, Killing at Exxon Station

A former Glen Burnie man has agreed to serve 40 years in prison for robbing a Hanover convenience store last year and killing a store clerk.

Robin Tyrone Smith, 27, pleaded guilty Monday to a robbery conspiracy and to the armed robbery on Aug. 7, 2014, of the Exxon Station convenience store, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland. He remains behind bars, prosecutors said.

Smith and the prosecutors agreed that if the federal court in Baltimore accepts the plea agreement, Smith will be sentenced to 40 years in prison, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz has scheduled Smith’s sentencing hearing for March 1.

According to his plea agreement, Smith admitted to conspiring with others to rob the Exxon Station convenience store at 7898 Ridge Road in Hanover. He also confessed to entering the store while armed with a gun and shooting the store clerk during the robbery. The store clerk died at the scene.

Smith was captured on the store’s video surveillance camera, and clothing and other evidence seized under search warrants also connected him to the robbery and shooting, prosecutors said.

According to the plea agreement, on the day before the Exxon robbery, Smith broke into an apartment near his Glen Burnie home and stole a .45-caliber pistol and ammunition, as well as an X-Box gaming system and games. He used the stolen pistol in the robbery, prosecutors said.

On Aug. 6, 2014, Smith sold some of the stolen X-Box games at a store in Arundel Mills Mall. He was identified by witnesses and the store’s surveillance system, which showed Smith wearing the same clothing and shoes that he wore during the Exxon robbery.