Court documents reveal new details about the accused D.C. teen’s crime throughout Baltimore

BALTIMORE (WBFF) – There is new information about the violent crime a Washington DC teenager is accused of committing throughout Baltimore.

Quontay Spinks, 19, has been linked to more than half a dozen violent crimes in the city that occurred in September and October, according to Baltimore police.

BPD detailed the crimes charged, including:

• The Sept. 14 killing of 36-year-old Antonio Peoples in Harbor East.
• The attempted murder and robbery of a man on Light Street near the Inner Harbor on September 12th
• Three armed carjackings, including one on Russell Street near the Horseshoe Casino, another on Orleans Street near Johns Hopkins Hospital and a third case on South Paca Street near Camden Yards.
• Two armed robberies, including one on the same block as a downtown Baltimore hotel on Redwood Street and another case on the 5700 block of Reisterstown Road.

Baltimore police announced Spinks’ arrest last week.

The 19-year-old from Washington DC appeared in court the next day on four of the seven cases and was denied bail.

Newly obtained court documents show how investigators linked Spinks to some of the crimes.

In the Sept. 12 attempted murder on Light Street and the Sept. 12 armed carjacking on Russell Street, Spinks’ fingerprint was recovered in the “driver’s rearview mirror,” investigators state in separate charging documents.

Charging documents for the Oct. 4 armed carjacking on S Paca Street indicated that “a receipt bearing the name Quontay” was recovered from the vehicle used in this crime.

At the arraignment for each of those three cases, investigators said Spinks later confessed to his involvement in the crime.

All four cases in which Spinks appeared in court indicated he did not act alone, including the murder in Harbor East, according to charging documents.

Harbor East murder charging documents cited surveillance video, a comparison of ballistic and forensic evidence and cell phone data to identify Spinks.

Records show Spinks was 18 years old at the time these crimes were committed.

During his bond hearing last week, it was revealed that Spinks is currently enrolled at Washington DC Public School Garnett-Patterson STAY

D.C. records show Spinks was arrested about six months after he turned 18.

According to Metropolitan PD, Spinks was one of five people arrested after being found in a stolen car in April 2024.

FOX45 News questioned what happened after the arrest.

Any criminal history Spinks had as a juvenile would be kept secret because current Maryland law requires the confidentiality of juvenile cases.

Some lawmakers are pushing to change that.

Specifically, it involves reintroducing past failed laws that would have created a searchable database of juvenile crimes without revealing the suspect’s identity.

Baltimore police have not yet responded when asked if there have been any other arrests in this crime spree.

Spinks remains in custody pending his upcoming preliminary hearing.