MAY 25, 2023
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Mailloux trial to go before jury in Sept. Judge sets aside four days in Knupp hit-and-run case
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Car owners and fans take a look under the hoods of all the cars lined up for inspection on Main Street in Berlin on Sunday. The Berlin Car Show has become an annual affair that coincides with Crusin’ Ocean City.
By Hunter Hine Staff Writer (May 25, 2023) Tyler Mailloux, the 22-year-old resident of Berlin who has been charged as the driver in the hit-and-run death of Gavin of Ocean Pines, will face a trial before a circuit court jury in September. The court on May 17 set aside four days in the second week of September — Sept. 11-14 — for the trial, which will be preceded by a motion hearing on Aug. 16 in the courtroom of Judge Brian Shockley. Judge Brett W. Wilson of Dorchester County Circuit Court is scheduled to oversee the first three days of the trial, and Shockley is scheduled to cover the final day. Worcester County State’s Attorney Kristin Heiser filed 17 charges against Mailloux in circuit court on April 28, about 10 months after the incident that killed 14-year-old Gavin Knupp on Grays Corner Road last July. Four of the 17 charges are felonies, two of See MAILLOUX Page 5
OP man gets 50 years for abuse of infant Prosecution says baby boy suffered multiple fractures, but was able to recover By Hunter Hine Staff Writer (May 25, 2023) Connor Paul Kelly, 32, of Ocean Pines, was sentenced to 50 years in prison in Worcester County Circuit Court last Friday for the abuse, assault and neglect of his infant son in 2021. On March 15, a jury found Kelly guilty of second-degree child abuse, three counts of second-degree assault and neglect of a minor.
Judge Beau Oglesby gave Kelly the maximum sentence for each crime; 25 years for a repeated second-degree child abuse offense that was merged with one of the second-degree assault counts, two 10-year sentences for the remaining counts of second-degree assault and five years for neglect of a minor. All the sentences are to be served consecutively. The judge gave Kelly credit for 785 days he has already served in jail. The offenses took place between Jan. 15 and Feb. 15, 2021, according to the Maryland Case Search. That was when, state prosecutor Pamela Correa told the court, Kelly abused
his son while on probation for a 2018 second-degree child abuse conviction he received for trying to smother his four-month-old daughter with a blanket in 2017. His daughter recovered. Oglesby issued an arrest warrant for Kelly on March 24, 2021, which was served on March 25, 2021. Before sentencing, prosecutors argued that the maximum sentence was the only way to protect society at large, saying that Kelly had demonstrated a pattern of violence and never showed remorse or took responsibility. Prosecutor Mary-Ann Burkhart
was also present, but Correa led the presentation. “The defendant displays what I would describe as a God complex, or perhaps more accurately the son of God complex,” Correa said at the hearing. As evidence, Correa read text messages between Kelly and his children’s mother, in which Kelly describes his and his children’s enormous energy and power, posting in the chain a Wikipedia page about “Nephilim,” or beings that are of God and angels, and comparing them to his children. See HARM Page 4
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