A man was found guilty on Thursday of assaulting two anti-abortion protesters outside the Planned Parenthood Baltimore Health Center in a random attack.

The jury deliberated for about two hours and convicted Patrick Brice in Baltimore Circuit Court of two counts of second-degree assault and reckless endangerment for attacking Richard Schaefer and Mark Crosby on May 26, 2023, outside the clinic on North Howard Street in downtown Baltimore.

But jurors acquitted Brice of one count of first-degree assault for Schaefer. And they could not reach a unanimous verdict on one count of first-degree assault for Crosby.

Brice, 28, of West Baltimore, did not dispute that he beat up the two men. But he argued that he did not intend to seriously injure them.

Surveillance cameras captured the entire incident.

“You saw what you saw, and you heard what you heard,” Assistant State’s Attorney Ashley Sudberry repeated throughout her closing argument.

People, she said, intend the natural consequences of their actions.

“Mr. Brice is a grown man. He’s not a child,” Sudberry said. “He knew what he was doing.”

In the video, Brice walks up to three volunteer clinic escorts and tries to hand one of them his drink. He then sets it on the ground and shakes each of their hands.

Next, Brice and Schaefer get into a heated conversation about their differing views on abortion.

Brice then rushes at Schaefer and tackles him into a flowerpot. Crosby runs over to defend his friend.

That’s when Brice pushes Crosby to the ground, punches him in the face and rears back and delivers a kick directly to his head.

At the time, Schaefer was 84. Crosby was 73.

Initially, Schaefer refused medical attention.

He testified that he later noticed his head was bleeding and went to an urgent care center. To this day, he said, he still experiences pain in one of his shoulders.

“It seems like I was attacked on a city street not doing any harm to people,” Schaefer testified.

Meanwhile, Crosby spent three days at the Maryland Shock Trauma Center immediately after the assault. Later, he twice ended up back in the emergency room.

Crosby testified that he suffered injuries including an orbital fracture. He said he experiences blurred vision, foreign body sensation and sensitivity to light in his right eye.

“I have to watch my back all the time,” Crosby testified. “Always aware of who’s around me.”

It was not immediately clear whether prosecutors intend to retry the remaining count of first-degree assault.

In a statement, James Bentley, a spokesperson for the Baltimore State’s Attorney’s Office, said it is “reviewing the matter and will take whatever action we believe is warranted following that review and consultation with the victim.”

Brice exercised his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and did not testify.

Assistant Public Defender Matthew Connell, Brice’s attorney, said his client did not intend to cause serious physical injury, which is needed to support a conviction for first-degree assault.

Brice has no criminal record and surrendered to Baltimore Police. And he was willing to accept responsibility for second-degree assault, Connell said.

But Connell then argued the jury had an “absolute right” to find his client not guilty on all counts.

Connell brought up how the two men retained attorneys and claimed they believe they’re “religious martyrs” for getting attacked in Baltimore.

“Somebody snapped on them,” Connell said. “This is Baltimore. It’s not Towson.”

Anti-abortion protesters make vile comments and harass women, Connell said. Schaefer and Crosby, he said, were spending their “golden years” antagonizing people.

Brice “didn’t mean to hurt them that bad,” he said, and “made a mistake.”

For what his attorney called a mistake, Brice now faces sentencing on March 20.