Overview
- Howard County Circuit Court Judge Stephanie Porter found Zeah guilty on 13 counts, including two first-degree murder counts, after a three-day bench trial.
- The victims, Michael Robertson, 16, and Blake McCray, 15, were shot at a bus stop outside The Mall in Columbia on Feb. 22, 2025.
- Investigators cited witness accounts, security video, and ankle-monitor GPS data to place Zeah at the scene, and police say he later confessed.
- Zeah, 19, was acquitted on one obstruction charge but convicted of retaliation counts, with sentencing set for May 22, 2026.
- The case spurred wider actions, including the state’s shutdown of the supervising ankle-monitor firm over missed violation alerts, a new downtown patrol unit by police, and civil lawsuits by the victims’ families.