A Silver Spring man has been sentenced to 70 years in prison for shooting his housemate in January 2021.
According to the Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office, “The Honorable Debra Dwyer has sentenced defendant, Andre R. Moore, to life in prison suspend all but 70 years and five years of supervised probation upon release for the shooting death of his house-mate, 40-year-old Michael Sutton.
The sentencing hearing was held Friday, April 26, 2024. Moore was convicted by a jury on December 1, 2024, on charges of first-degree murder and use of a firearm in commission of a crime of violence for shooting and killing Sutton inside of the home along Balmoral Drive in Silver Spring where they were both tenants.”
“This is yet another case of senseless, deadly violence involving a ‘ghost gun’ or privately manufactured firearm. The weapon was illegally purchased by the defendant about two weeks prior to the murder. We send our deepest condolences to the family of Michael Sutton and thank the Montgomery County Police detectives and Assistant State’s Attorneys Kimberly Cissel and James Dietrich for seeing that justice is served in this matter,” said State’s Attorney John McCarthy in December.
