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An Anne Arundel County man was sentenced to life in prison for the 2024 murder of a rising boxer.

Nicholas Francis Giroux, 37, of Odenton, was sentenced to life plus 20 years for first-degree murder in the death of 27-year-old Isaiah Olugbemi.

Giroux pleaded guilty to murder on February 28, 2025.
"Mr. Olugbemi was a father and rising star in amateur boxing," said Anne Arundel County State's Attorney Anne Colt Leitess. "This was a cruel and senseless murder that took the life of someone with great promise." Leitess added, "the callousness and lack of remorse on the part of this Defendant is really disturbing. He deserves this sentence. And to the family and friends of Mr. Olugbemi, I hope that today provides some sense of justice for this terrible ordeal."

The murder confession
On June 17, 2024, Anne Arundel police responded to the 500 block of Meadowmist Way in Odenton, where Olugbemi had been shot multiple times. He was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

According to police, a video showed Giroux shooting Olugbemi several times until he fell to the ground. Giroux then shot Olugbemi three more times, according to police.

About two weeks before the murder, police said Giroux confronted Olugbemi and a next-door neighbor while they were having a cookout and playing music in the neighbor's backyard.

Police said that Giroux showed a gun, but he wasn't arrested because he never pointed the gun at anyone.

Police said they interviewed Giroux on June 18, 2024, and he confessed to the murder.

Olugbemi's boxing aspirations
Olugbemi was a well-known boxer in the region and dreamed of competing professionally, according to the owner of the Anne Arundel County gym where Olugbemi primarily trained.

He considered making that jump to become a professional by the end of 2024.

Olugbemi won the National Golden Gloves Championship in Washington, D.C., a month before he was killed, and won another amateur fight the week before he died.

"The last text I sent to him was right after he won the fight, and I was like, 'I'm so proud of you, you accomplished your dreams, man, congratulations," gym owner Jim Hook said.

https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/maryland-man-sentenced-life-prison-murder-boxer-olugbemi/

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Good for him.

30 more characters from where plsssssssss

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Rest in peace lad, a gun wielding society is one doomed especially with hard drugs flying around like skittles

Why would one take a life he can't create, I pray he rots in jail and in hell aftermath... My condolences to his family 💔

And how is this justice? Someone gruesomely murdered another person and you sentenced him to life imprisonment. What happened to him being being subjected to the same fate

ujay4u:
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This thing no really hard...

it's not compulsory you comment on every thread.

Days like this, when you are empty.. it's just better not to write anything, than this nonsense.


Just look at you

Quite a sad story. Rendering that little boy fatherless. Hmm

The British, Italians, Chinese, Japanese and Arabs need to loan out sense to the US. Too many guns on the street. At the most little instance, a gun becomes the solution.

Just the other day, a family complained to a Neighbour because he was shooting into the air and causing incessant panic, and same nei went back to their house and shot up the house.

Too many cowards behind the gun. Can he handle the boxer without a gun, No! But guns gave him the guts.

He better start seeking protective custody because no way he is making it out of that jail.

Must be drug related issue
The boxer is not totally innocent

I currently reside in Anne Arundel County and this is the first time I’m hearing about this case. May he RIP

Damilola97:
I currently reside in Anne Arundel County and this is the first time I’m hearing about this case. May he RIP

Probably because it happened last year. May his soul RIP.

The guy might be a racist.... this is the evidence that good and evil spirit exist...to either commit suicide or murder ,the person is completed possessed by a wicked demons of violence ....God created man to be good, merciful and hopeful....once this virtues is not in man ....evil takes over ,resulting to greed and wickedness of all kind

Did you read the piece ??
Na wah for you o, you no read you dey comment

agadez007:
Must be drug related issue
The boxer is not totally innocent

babtoundey:
And how is this justice? Someone gruesomely murdered another person and you sentenced him to death. What happened to him being being subjected to the same fate

I don't know if its just me bro, but this your comment appears confusing. Could it be typo?

zedman1:
I don't know if its just me bro, but this your comment appears confusing. Could it be typo?

It's confusing.. an unconscious error. He wasn't sentenced to death so I don't consider that a just judgement

Eye for an eye is a sin..
Am sure the lawyer that condemned him to death will have a case to answer on the last day

A Nigerian is more likely to get justice faster in an American court than a Nigerian court?!! They ho use adjournment kill the desire for justice while kola dey exchange hand. Smh.

RIP to him. Sad sad

So he had a gun 2 weeks earlier but because he didn't point at anyone couldn't be detained? Well, on this I think I love the style Nigerian police would have used..in that two weeks at least he would be behind bars and begging to even pay bail.

This is a case of first degree murder it should have attracted the death penalty.

American justice system is flawed in some ways.

Now he will be living off taxpayers money for the rest of his freaking natural life.

He should have been lethally injected simple.

nairalandkachy1:
https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/maryland-man-sentenced-life-prison-murder-boxer-olugbemi/

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May his soul RIP Amen

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Police saw him with a gun 2 weeks earlier, but because he wasn't ready to use it at that time, they gave him an opportunity to do it?
Imagine a country where gun is something you can buy over the country like a bread with the number of psychos in the USA? I feel safer in Nigeria than in the US, because someone who doesn't like your face can just decide to shoot you in the head

No travel advisory to warn anyone to stay off the US because of its gun violence... Let it be an African country, America would have issued travel warnings up and down...

May the soul of Isaiah Olugbemi rest in perfect peace.

Such a able bodied man and good boxer gone, I don't see what people see in America, I would rather prefer Switzerland or Luxembourg than that hellhole.

babtoundey:
And how is this justice? Someone gruesomely murdered another person and you sentenced him to life imprisonment. What happened to him being being subjected to the same fate

There is no sentence of death penalty in the United Kingdom

Life imprisonment ?? will soon be granted anesty x