Raw Video Evidence Destroys Ivan Bates’ 90-Day Homicide Plea Deal

This investigation was done in partnership with Scott Collier of DundalkTV.

One year ago on June 4, 2025, 61-year-old retired federal postal worker John “Stan” Hasty suffered catastrophic brain trauma during an encounter at the Carroll Fuel station on the Dundalk and Holabird Avenues intersection. WBAL and The Baltimore Sun reported the initial facts of a tragic road-rage dispute. The Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office used those early reports that were missing crucial details to quietly force through a joke 90-day sentence for involuntary manslaughter.

On October 17, 2025 Judge Jennifer B. Schiffer suspended all but three months of a 10-year prison term for an 18-year-old predator. Prosecutors charged the suspect with involuntary manslaughter — a charge usually reserved for reckless accidents — instead of second-degree murder. The official courthouse narrative claimed a sudden mutual fight — an accidental single-punch tragedy where the suspect could not foresee a lethal outcome.

The Video Proof

The unredacted surveillance evidence shatters that legal fiction. The actual sequence of events shows Stan Hasty exited his vehicle, gestured angrily toward Dundalk Avenue and pointed down at the gas station pavement. He then turned his back, reached into his car and retrieved an item. At exactly 16:29:58, a crossover coupe entered the video frame and pulled up to the gas pump behind Hasty’s vehicle.

Hasty looked towards their vehicle for a few seconds but refused to engage further with the suspects. He began walking to the cashier’s booth. He executed a textbook legal disengagement and completely ceased to be an active participant or an aggressor at this point.

The suspect group got out of their vehicle and yelled at Hasty, causing him to pause his stride. The group then advanced on the retreating senior citizen. As 18-year-old Jayden Marshall Simpson launched his fist, Hasty’s hands moved upward in an involuntary defensive flinch. His fingers appear to briefly brush Simpson’s shoulder only after the punch was being thrown. The fatal strike did not land as a blindside blow from the flanks. It came straight from the front.

Simpson did not deliver a standard punch. He locked his footing into a wide power stance, anchored his rear foot against the concrete and executed a rapid one-two physical combination. Dundalk resident Jayden Simpson landed the concussive punch and instantly drove his left hand forward into a secondary push. The shove quickened the unconscious grandfather’s fall and guaranteed additional skull trauma against the asphalt.

The violence did not stop when the victim hit the ground. The suspects offered zero medical aid and they never dialed 911. At exactly 16:30:22, Simpson stood directly over the motionless grandfather and taunted his unconscious body. Simpson then leaned down and spat straight onto the face of the dying man.

Criminal Misclassification

Why does this matter? Combined with Simpson’s push, the spitting serves as definitive proof of legal malice. Those additional actions after the lethal punch–along with their calculated flight from the crime scene–provides raw evidence that the State’s Attorney’s Office should have tried Simpson for second-degree murder or voluntary manslaughter.

The adult female driver functioned as the operational anchor for this entire homicide unit. She steered the vehicle into a deliberate detour loop off Dundalk Avenue to trap a pedestrian, marched onto the lot ahead of the teenagers to fuel the verbal assault and piloted the high-speed getaway vehicle behind Soprano’s Pizza to evade the police response grid.

It then took about 26 minutes for an ambulance to arrive on scene. Less than 24 hours later, John “Stan” Hasty was taken off life support and pronounced dead at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.

Constructive Denial

The truth remained buried for a year because of a calculated and unlawful administrative blockade at the Mitchell Courthouse. The Baltimore City Police Department stepped up and handed over the native case records properly. Meanwhile, Ivan Bates’ legal team sat on other video files/documents for 107 days and counting. DundalkTV producer and Congressional candidate Scott Collier and I have been waiting for these additional records, but they were never digitally delivered to either of us.

Custodian of Records Natasha Powell and the State’s Attorney’s Office ran out the statutory clock to insulate the file until the killer completed his brief timeout and walked free. Two months after gifting this killer a 90-day holiday, Ivan Bates released a slick taxpayer-funded public relations video promising that his number one goal was ensuring no citizen is left vulnerable to city violence. That empty marketing campaign is a grotesque insult to a grieving family. In my humble opinion, a second-degree murderer walked away with a three-month vacation while an adult getaway driver roams the community with total immunity.

Redemption

If the number one goal is to ensure public safety, The Baltimore Informer and DundalkTV are calling for charges to be brought against the getaway driver and the young female accomplice. Jayden Simpson cannot be tried in court again over this crime, but there is still time to correct this additional injustice. Had the grown adult stayed on Dundalk Avenue and kept driving home, John “Stan” Hasty would still be alive today.

There is a lot more to this story that needs to be told. Stay tuned to the Baltimore Informer for more in the coming days. Rest in peace, Mr. Hasty.




ALT Text

Split-screen graphic showing a black-and-white surveillance frame of homicide victim Stan Hasty lying isolated on the gas station pavement on the left and a color photograph of a smiling State’s Attorney Ivan Bates at a press conference podium on the right.

Caption

The Stark Divide: The raw reality of Stan Hasty’s final moments on the asphalt contrasted with State’s Attorney Ivan Bates’ celebratory public messaging.

Description

A high-contrast split-screen featured graphic designed for The Baltimore Informer. The left pane captures a haunting black-and-white frame from the Carroll Fuel security cameras, depicting retired postal worker Stan Hasty lying abandoned on the concrete after a kinetic assault. The right pane features a sharp color photograph of Baltimore City State’s Attorney Ivan Bates smiling at a promotional press podium. The juxtaposition highlights the severe disconnect between community trauma and political positioning inside the city’s justice system.