Perry Hall Man Sentenced To Life In Ex-Girlfriend's Death

PERRY HALL, MD — A Perry Hall man was sentenced this week to life in prison for the death of his ex-girlfriend. Prosecutors said he planned to kill her before shooting her twice in the head.

Taylor India Webb, 22, was shot to death in her car in the corner of Hickory Falls Way at Hickoryhurst Drive in Perry Hall late in the evening on Feb. 26, 2019.

Prosecutors said her ex-boyfriend lured her to the area, where Webb texted a friend seconds before he opened the car door and shot her. In what became her last words, she told her friend by text message that Christopher Engles was walking to her car, officials reported.

Phone records linked Engles, 22, of Bellhurst Way in Perry Hall, to the scene of the crime and included statements about him discussing killing Web before the murder, according to authorities.

Engles was convicted of first-degree premeditated murder, robbery with a dangerous and deadly weapon and use of a firearm in a violent crime by a jury in September 2021.

Baltimore County State's Attorney Scott Shellenberger said the killing was a "brutal crime," in a statement issued Wednesday. "Ms. Webb was a trusting person who was killed for no reason."

He showed no remorse for his crimes, according to Judge Paul Hanley, who sentenced him in Baltimore County Circuit Court Tuesday to life in prison.

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