BALTIMORE - A federal judge sentenced Antonio Purisima, 25, of Baltimore, to 35 years in federal prison for his role in a string of armed carjackings in June 2022, including one that ended in a fatal shooting near an Interstate 95 ramp.
U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar imposed the sentence, which will be followed by five years of supervised release, for carjacking resulting in death. U.S. Attorney Kelly O. Hayes announced the sentence alongside Special Agent in Charge Jimmy Paul of the FBI Baltimore Field Office and Baltimore Police Department Commissioner Richard Worley.
According to court documents, Purisima conspired with co-conspirators Jerritt Barron, 24, Jeremy Matheny, 27, and Nefertiti Moore, 23, all of Baltimore, to commit several armed carjackings. On June 15, 2022, Purisima, Barron, and Matheny followed a victim from Maryland Live! Casino in Anne Arundel County to her Glen Burnie residence, where two masked co-conspirators brandished handguns, demanded money and car keys, and drove away in her vehicle. The car was recovered less than one hour later in Baltimore.
Four days later, on June 19, all four co-conspirators attempted to carjack a vehicle near an I-95 ramp in Baltimore. Moore exited a black pickup truck and flagged down the victim while the others blocked the victim’s vehicle from entering the ramp. A co-conspirator then shot the victim, who later died from the injuries. The group fled the scene.
Historical cell-site data placed Purisima, Matheny, and Moore at or near the scene of the murder. Law enforcement also extracted latent fingerprints from the Glen Burnie victim’s carjacked vehicle that matched both Matheny and Purisima. A cellphone confiscated from Matheny upon his arrest on June 22 contained photos of Purisima, Barron, and Matheny posing with firearms at Maryland Live! Casino, and surveillance video from the casino showed the co-conspirators following the victim as she drove away.
Barron was sentenced by Judge Bredar in May 2026 to 40 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release. Matheny received 24 years followed by five years of supervised release. Moore, 23, was also charged.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney John W. Sippel Jr. as part of Project Safe Neighborhoods, the Department of Justice’s nationwide initiative to combat violent crime. The DOJ described PSN as a key component of Operation Take Back America, coordinating federal, state, and local law enforcement across all 94 federal districts.