text: A Maryland man faced murder charges on Friday after accidentally shooting his friend while testing out a bulletproof vest, a shooting reportedly recorded on a video camera. 
   
   Baltimore police arrested Mark Ramiro, 30, after he fatally shot Darnell Mitchell, 28, late on Wednesday. 
   
   The Baltimore Sun reported on Friday the shooting was recorded on a video camera by a third person. 
   
   In that video, Mitchell brags that he is about to take a “deuce deuce in the chest” - a shot from a .22-caliber bullet - before Ramiro, who is seen standing in front of Mitchell, fired the handgun once. He struck Mitchell just above the vest, the newspaper said. 
   
   Police would not comment on specific evidence. 
   
   Ramiro drove Mitchell to a hospital where he was pronounced dead, according to police. Ramiro is being held on homicide charges and weapons violations. 
   
   (Reporting by John Clarke; Editing by Bill Trott) ||||| A 30-year-old man has been arrested in the fatal shooting of a victim who was wearing a bulletproof vest and bragging he was about to take a "deuce deuce in the chest" in video recorded by a third person at the scene, according to court documents. 
   
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   Police said Mark-Anthony Sandang Ramiro was arrested and charged in the shooting death of Darnell Mitchell, 28, during an incident in Ramiro's basement at 2208 Cedley Street in south Baltimore on Wednesday. 
   
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   Police said the incident was filmed as Mitchell, who had been wearing a ballistics vest, was shot one time by Ramiro. The victim suffered a gunshot wound above the vest. 
   
   According to court documents, police were called when Mitchell walked into the Shock Trauma with Ramiro around 4 a.m. Wednesday. Despite medical efforts, police said Mitchell was pronounced dead at 4:07 p.m. 
   
   After getting a search warrant and processing the scene, police said they discovered a Cannon E07 digital camera with video on it of the shooting. 
   
   In that video, Mitchell was bragging that he was about to take a “deuce deuce in the chest” -- a shot from a .22-caliber bullet -- before Ramiro, who is seen standing in front of Mitchell, discharged the handgun one time, striking Mitchell just above the vest, according to charging documents. 
   
   The documents said Mitchell collapsed onto the floor and Ramiro dropped the gun. Ramiro and the person taking the video helped the victim, and then the video ended, according to court documents. 
   
   Investigators said they determined Ramiro was the suspect responsible for the fatal shooting by his clothing and unique tattoos on his left hand. 
   
   Police said Ramiro has been charged with first- and second-degree murder and handgun violations and is being held at the Baltimore City Central Booking and Intake Facility. 
   
   Detectives said they're still trying to identify the third man in the video. 
   
   Case could come down to definition of murder 
   
   A first-degree murder charge is generally defined as an unlawful killing that is deliberate and planned, but a big question in the case is whether Ramiro meant to kill his friend. 
   
   "I can't speak for the State's Attorney's Office. What I can tell you is this is an unfortunate situation that could have been avoided," said Sgt. Jarron Jackson, who would not say if police believe the shooting death may have been intentional. 
   
   An official at the State's Attorney's Office told 11 News that prosecutors felt the appropriate charge was second-degree murder, which is defined generally as an intentional killing that is not planned or premeditated, or a killing caused by dangerous conduct with a lack of concern for human life. 
   
   Byron Warnken, a long-time defense attorney and a University of Baltimore law professor, read the police report. 
   
   "I can't believe that this case would be first-degree murder," he said, but he explained that it is possible to prove it was planned. "Premeditation -- this computer (points toward the brain) works very rapidly. Premeditation can happen in a split, split second." 
   
   The court commissioner decided to add first-degree murder to the list of charges, not the State's Attorney's Office, 11 News learned. 
   
   11 News reporter George Lettis contributed to this article ||||| Man charged with shooting friend in botched test of bulletproof vest 
   
   Victim proclaimed on video he was ready to be shot before errant bullet 
   
   Officers were called to the hospital around 4 a.m., police said. Detectives found the Cannon EO7 video camera in the basement and got a warrant for the footage, which showed the incident described in charging documents against Ramiro. 
   
   The video ends as Ramiro dropped the gun and both friends rushed to Mitchell's aid. They drove from Ramiro's apartment in the 2200 block of Cedley St. to University of Maryland Medical Center, where Mitchell was pronounced dead within minutes, police said. 
   
   But, police said, Mark Ramiro missed the body armor when he pulled the trigger on the .22 caliber handgun, and he now faces murder charges in the 28-year-old's death. 
   
   Three people stood in the basement of a Westport home before 4 a.m. Wednesday to film a stunt in which they planned to test a bulletproof vest. Darnell Mitchell put it on, looked into a video camera and proclaimed himself ready to take "deuce deuce in the chest." 
   
   Ramiro's mother referred a reporter to his attorney, Christopher Flohr, who could not be reached Thursday night. 
   
   Ramiro faces first- and second-degree murder and two gun charges, police said. 
   
   A spokesman for the Baltimore City State's Attorney's Office referred questions about the severity of the charges to the city court comissioner's office. Representatives there could not be reached for comment Thursday night. 
   
   The state's attorney's spokesman, Mark Cheshire, said city prosecutors had sought the second-degree murder charge, but the court commissioner imposed an additional first-degree charge. Asked why prosecutors sought the murder charge at all, Cheshire said only that, after an investigation, "we thought that was the appropriate charge." 
   
   In a separate case, a 40-year-old Baltimore man was charged Thursday with shooting a man in the leg and groin after the two got into a knife fight in the 800 block of N. Belnord Ave. in East Baltimore Tuesday night. 
   
   When a heated argument escalated between Nathaniel Jerome McElveen Jr. and the victim, who was not identified, the two pulled out pocket knives and began to fight, police said. 
   
   Nursing a cut to his head, McElveen retrieved an automatic .45 caliber handgun from his nearby home and shot the 33-year-old man twice, police said. The man knocked the gun from McElveen's hand, picked it up and hit McElveen with it, police said. The two continued to struggle as someone in a crowd of onlookers grabbed the gun and left the scene, police said. 
   
   Officers and medics were called to the scene, and both men were taken to the emergency room at Johns Hopkins Hospital. McElveen was treated for the cut on his head, and the second man awaits surgery on a fractured right femur, police said. 
   
   McElveen faces attempted first- and second-degree murder, assault, reckless endangerment and several gun charges, police said. 
   
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target: – Ready, aim—shoot and kill a friend who's wearing a bullet-proof vest. Police say that very tragedy unfolded in Baltimore on Wednesday when Mark Ramiro, 30, shot Darnell Mitchell, 28, with a .22-caliber bullet, Reuters reports. A third friend apparently recorded Mitchell on video boasting that he was going to take a "deuce deuce in the chest" to test his bulletproof vest. But Ramiro aimed too high, the video ended, and Mitchell was later pronounced dead at a hospital. Ramiro now faces first- and second-degree murder along with two gun charges, the Baltimore Sun reports. Why first-degree? A veteran defense attorney told WBAL-TV that he questioned the charge, but added, "Premeditation—this computer (points toward the brain) works very rapidly. Premeditation can happen in a split, split second."