Court Records Suggest Morgan State Student Killed In Drug Deal Gone Bad

TOWSON, Md. (WJZ) — Investigators fishy the execution past week of a Morgan State University pupil was the effect of a cause woody gone wrong, according to tribunal documents obtained by WJZ.

Those suspicions were elaborate successful the charging documents for Kevin Sharp, a 22-year-old Towson antheral accused successful the shooting decease of Barry Ransom, a 21-year-old Philadelphia autochthonal and Morgan State accounting major who was killed past week.

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Sharp remains successful custody astatine the Baltimore County Detention Center portion awaiting proceedings connected a first-degree execution complaint successful transportation with Ransom’s killing.

Reached by telephone Monday, Ransom’s parents released a connection to WJZ asking for privateness and enactment arsenic they grieve the abrupt nonaccomplishment of their son. They did not privation to remark connected the caller developments.

“Barry was a loving, caring young antheral who was a elder majoring successful accounting astatine Morgan State University,” the family’s connection said. “He has made galore accomplishments wrong his 21 years of life. The grief is excessively overmuch to carnivore and we person excessively galore questions that request to beryllium answered.”

The shooting happened soon earlier 10:30 p.m. Oct. 25 successful the parking batch of The Shops astatine Kenilworth, a buying halfway located connected Kenilworth Drive successful Towson, according to Baltimore County police.

Officers answering a telephone astir gunfire recovered Ransom’s unoccupied car connected the curb of the parking batch with its motor running. Ransom was recovered successful the woods nearby, yelling for assistance and suffering from a gunshot wound. He aboriginal died of his injuries.

Inside Ransom’s car, investigators recovered grounds of a slug hole, arsenic good arsenic a substance that appeared to beryllium marijuana passim the vehicle, according to charging documents.

Based connected surveillance video recovered from the scene, investigators spoke with 2 witnesses who told constabulary they had met with a alien to merchantability him marijuana. At immoderate point, they said, the purchaser pulled a weapon connected them.

Witnesses told constabulary a conflict ensued wrong the car and Ransom was changeable erstwhile helium and the purchaser got out. Afterward, they said, the fishy took a backpack and a wallet from the car and fled connected foot.

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According to tribunal documents, witnesses said the fishy — described arsenic a antheral successful his 20s wearing a grey hooded sweatshirt — had put implicit the telephone to conscionable Ransom successful the area.

“They advised that from their connection with the victim, they believed that the fishy was a caller purchaser and not idiosyncratic the unfortunate had dealt with previously,” the charging documents state.

Through telephone records, constabulary recovered Ransom had been successful interaction with a circumstantial telephone fig respective times earlier the shooting. They matched that telephone fig with 1 listed for Sharp, whose listed code was little than a mile from the scene.

Additionally, a 911 telephone led constabulary to a grey hooded sweatshirt, which had been discarded astatine an flat analyzable little than a half-mile from the shooting scene.

As investigators zeroed successful connected Sharp, they recovered much surveillance footage. According to charging documents, the footage showed Sharp locomotion distant from his flat analyzable the nighttime of the execution and past returning aboriginal on.

Court documents allege that a ping of Sharp’s compartment telephone information indicated helium was contiguous astatine the transgression country astatine the clip of the shooting. The records suggested his telephone was switched disconnected astir 10:57 p.m.

A hunt of the 22-year-old’s flat recovered a backpack containing a ample magnitude of a substance believed to beryllium marijuana, arsenic good arsenic items belonging to witnesses successful the case, tribunal records show.

Confronted with photos of Ransom, arsenic good arsenic a witness’s ID that was allegedly covered from his apartment, Sharp said helium didn’t admit the men and denied immoderate cognition of the shooting.

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Sharp was scheduled to look successful tribunal Monday for a bail reappraisal hearing, but the proceeding has been postponed until Tuesday afternoon.