Jeter Convicted in Murder of Glen Burnie Dentist

A jury convicted a Baltimore man Monday on all counts in the September 2005 murder of a Glen Burnie dentist.

Dante A. Jeter, 25, of the 1600 block of East 30th Street in Baltimore, was convicted of the first-degree felony murder Dr. Albert Ro. He also was convicted of robbery, burglary and conspiracy to commit murder, according to a press release from the Anne Arundel County State's Attorney's Office.

Jeter faces life without parole when he goes to sentencing July 24.

Jeter's cousin, Shontay Joyner Hickman, 37—who pleaded guilty to the murder in Feburary—testified against Jeter, saying she hired her cousin and his two friends to kill Ro for $1,000. Hickman testified that she did not want to be caught for stealing $17,000 in insurance checks from Ro's office.

Hickman was sentenced in February to life in prison. In return for her testimony, the state agreed to modify Hickman's sentence to life with all but 40 years suspended with the possibility of parole, the Capital reported.

The case was cold until Jeter and Hickman were arrested in 2010. Assistant State’s Attorney Anne Colt Leitess praised the police and the technicians who broke this case, according to the press release.

“It was through the diligence of the Anne Arundel County police homicide and cold case squad, crime scene technicians, DNA and latent print units who preserved the evidence and uncovered it piece by piece over the last five years which allowed the State to build a successful prosecution against both Dante Jeter and Shontay Hickman for murder of Dr. Albert Ro," Leitess said in the press release.

"We are extremely pleased with the jury’s verdict and thank each of them for their time and commitment. While the verdict closes this part of the case, the case unfortunately remains open as there are two more accomplices out there who participated in the murder,” Leitess said in the release.

The remaining two people involved in Ro's murder have not been charged. Anyone with information about the suspects is asked to contact the Anne Arundel County Police Department cold case squad at 410-222-3460.

In September 2011, after being found guilty in the 2008 first-degree murder of 25-year-old Tyrone Freeman in Baltimore over a $150 drug debt.