BALTIMORE COUNTY – A man has been sentenced to life in prison for the 2021 murder of a 30-year-old man in Baltimore County.
Hector Marroquin Galdamez, 41, was convicted of premeditated murder, conspiracy to commit murder, robbery with a dangerous or deadly weapon and use of a firearm in the commission of a violent crime.
This all stems from an incident that occurred on May 22, 2021. Baltimore County Police were called to an area near Hammonds Ferry, north of the Patapsco River.
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There they found the body of Orlando Portillo, who had been shot and stabbed multiple times.
According to police, Portillo was at a bar in the early hours of May 20, 2021. At the bar, he gave the impression that he was a member of the MS-13 gang.
Galdamez and others who were with him at the same bar were members of the 18th Street Gang, a rival gang of MS-13. Galdamez and his group followed Portillo out of the bar and abducted him in the parking lot.
Portillo was taken to the area where his body was found and robbed of his cellphone, shoes and necklace. He was then shot and stabbed multiple times, police said.
Galdamez was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, followed by 20 years in prison.
