Raymont Hopewell

In December 2005, he was charged with five counts of murder, four counts of assault, and one count of rape. He was slated to be tried in September 2006. Persecutors sought the death penalty. Shortly before his scheduled trial, Hopewell accepted a plea deal which allowed him to plead guilty to all charges to avoid a death sentence. On September 14, 2006, Hopewell was given four consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole. At his sentencing he apologized to the families of his victims. Hopewell is currently serving his sentence at Western Correctional Institution in Allegany County, Maryland.

On May 31, 2005, Hopewell broke into the apartment of 78-year-old Sadie Mack in the Sandtown neighborhood. Using a shoestring, he tied Mack's hands together, took off her pants, and sexually assaulted her. He then strangled her to death. Her body was found later that day by her son Ernest. On August 21, Hopewell entered 82-year-old Carlton Crawford's apartment. He tied Crawford, who was deaf, by the ankles then continently beat him and ended up killing him. Two downstairs neighbors, Bruce Boulware and D'Twain Holmes-Boulware, heard loud noises coming from Crawford's apartment. The couple notified security of the odd noises. When a female security guard knocked on Crawford's door, Hopewell answered and told the officer that Crawford had simply fallen, but when the officer asked to come in, Hopewell refused. She threatened to call police to which Hopewell dared her to. She then walked away, and Hopewell ran out of the building. The responding officers found Crawford's body on the floor.

In 2004, Hopewell was arrested for violating his probation. On April 10 of that year, he was sentenced to serve 18 months in prison. Under guidelines of a 2002 ruling by the then Baltimore mayor Martin O'Malley, he would have been required to submit a sample of his DNA. However, Hopewell was never told to submit a sample of his DNA. From April to July 2004, Hopewell was housed at Baltimore City Detention Center before being transferred to Metropolitan Transition Center. The following month he was again transferred to a halfway house where he and other felons were sent to await release. Under the terms of the facility was that felons were allowed to leave the premises on work release. On September 2, 2004, Hopewell failed to show back to the facility after he was let out on a furlough. As such, he was reported as a walk off and added to a local wanted list.

On February 21, 1999, Hopewell killed 60-year-old Constance Wills. A friend of Wills' family, Hopewell broke into the home and attacked Wills in the bedroom. He tied her wrists together, sexually assaulted her, beat her then strangled her to death. He then took valuables from the home. The body of Wills was discovered by her daughter and her neighbor. The next day, police ruled her death a homicide. Hopewell was arrested in 2001 after attempting to sell cocaine to an undercover police officer. He was released on $5,000 bail. In September 2002, he was convicted of the drug charge and given two years of probation. Two months later, Hopewell entered the Greenwell Apartments for elderly and disabled in northern Baltimore, where at the time, his mother was living. Across from his mother's apartment was the apartment of 88-year-old Sarah Shannon. On November 30, 2002, Hopewell broke into Shannon's apartment and located her in her bed. He raped and strangled her to death and took valuables. Her body was found by a relative after she had not answered any of her phone calls.

Raymont Hopewell (born June 11, 1971) is an American serial killer and rapist who attacked ten elderly Baltimore residents between 1999 and 2005, five of which he murdered. In a deal with prosecutors, Hopewell pleaded guilty to five counts of murder in order to avoid the death penalty, and instead received four life sentences.

Raymont Hopewell was born in Baltimore on June 11, 1971. Raised in an area near Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park, Hopewell was recounted as a regular kid; he would ride bikes, play hide and seek, and had a big friend group. Little else is known about his upbringing, but in his sophomore year of high school he dropped out. He soon fell into the use of heroin which he would form an addiction from. His addiction led him to start committing crimes. These crimes led to criminal convictions for drug possession, intent to sell drugs, burglary, battery, theft, and resisting arrest.