Man sentenced to life for shooting Catonsville convenience store owner, killing customer
A man who shot the popular owner of Yours convenience store in Catonsville, and killed a customer, during a robbery in 2009 was sentenced today in Baltimore County Circuit Court to life in prison without the chance of parole.
Braderick Greene, 37, used a .45 caliber handgun to shoot Sudhir Shah, the owner, and Brian Meise. Shah was shot in the head and spent months recovering; he has reopened his store. Meise, the lone customer, was killed.
The life sentence is tacked on top of 11 life sentences he received for shooting at nearly a dozen police officers when they arrested him in the Catonsville shooting. The officers had stopped Greene in Baltimore City and exchanged gunfire with him as he fled. Police said he used the same gun to shoot as the officers as he did to shoot Shah and Meise.
Here is a statement with more details from Baltimore Count prosecutors:
On Wednesday, November 9, 2011, Braderick Greene was sentenced to life without parole for murder by the Honorable Patrick Cavanaugh in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County. The Judge made this sentence consecutive to the sentence Greene is currently serving.
On October 13, 2011, Braderick Greene, 37, was convicted by a County jury of the murder of Brian Meise and the attempted murder of Sudhir Shah at the Yours Convenience store on Frederick Road in Catonsville, Maryland. Greene resided on Melrose Avenue in the same neighborhood where the store is located.
On November 17, 2009, Greene entered the convenience store armed with a .45 caliber handgun and having his face concealed with a bandana. Shah, the owner of the store, was behind the counter and Meise was the lone customer. The masked Greene walked in and almost immediately and without provocation shot and killed Meise. Greene then proceeded around to the rear of the cashier area and robbed and shot Shah in the head. Shah was able to call 911.
Days later in Baltimore City Greene was captured by police after fleeing from a traffic stop in which he was a passenger. As soon as the car he was in came to a stop Greene exited the passenger door and began shooting at police. He continued to fire as he fled on foot. Police pursued and ultimately shot Greene causing him to drop the gun. Greene was arrested and taken to the hospital. Ballistics testing revealed this was the same gun used to kill Meise and shoot Shah in the county. Greene has previously been convicted of eleven counts of attempted murder for the City shooting, receiving eleven Life sentences.
