State v. Jermaine Christopher Stringer, C-08-CR-21-000511
LA PLATA, MD—Tony Covington, State’s Attorney for Charles County, announced that on Friday, September 26, 2025, Charles County Circuit Court Judge William R. Greer, Jr. sentenced Jermaine Christopher Stringer, 39, to Life plus 20 years in prison for the First-Degree Murder of Arick Jordan Jackson, Use of a Firearm During the Commission of a Crime of Violence, and Possession of a Firearm When Prohibited After Being Convicted of a Crime of Violence.
On September 18, 2025, a Charles County jury, after a four-day trial, convicted Stringer of the above charges.
On September 10, 2021, officers with Charles County Sheriff’s Office responded to an apartment complex in Waldorf following reports of a gunshot. Upon arrival, they discovered the victim lying deceased in a breezeway. The victim was later identified as Arick Jordan Jackson.
Investigators reviewed surveillance footage from the complex, which showed the victim arriving and speaking with a group of people shortly before the shooting. The victim was then seen speaking with the suspect, later determined to be Stringer. After their exchange, the victim walked toward the breezeway, where others had gathered.
Moments later, Stringer approached the breezeway, after having returned to the vehicle he arrived in. A sound of the racking of a gun was heard and the victim tried to run. However, Stringer chased the victim and fired one shot, striking the victim in his upper back and killing him.
After the shooting, Stringer fled the area with co-defendant Darius Delonte Newman, who was present during the murder and drove Stringer out of the area.
Prior to the shooting, Stringer left a red plastic cup on the ground of the breezeway, leaving behind his fingerprints and DNA for identification.
On September 16, 2025, Newman was sentenced to 1172 days in prison for Accessory After the Fact – First-Degree Murder for his role in helping Stringer flee.
At Stringer’s sentencing, the prosecuting attorney for the case told the judge that Stringer has a history of prior assaults and acts of violence. The victim “at just 25 years was taken from the world unjustly at the hands of the defendant.”
Calling the murder “cold, calculated, and callous” she furthered that Stringer had “no regard for the life of Arick or quite frankly anyone else that was there that night. – [Stringer] has forfeited his right to walk this Earth as a free man.”
Before sentencing Stringer to Life plus 20 years in prison, the Honorable Judge Greer stated that the murder was an “execution” and that the “victim’s family will never be the same.”