‘He Made That Type Of Impact’: Morgan State Remembers Barry Ransom, Student Killed In Towson Monday

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TOWSON, Md. (WJZ) — Barry Ransom, the Philadelphia antheral changeable and killed Monday nighttime extracurricular a Towson buying center, was a pupil astatine Morgan State University.

Ransom, 21, was a inferior studying accounting, the assemblage confirmed Wednesday. He was changeable astir 10:30 p.m. Monday successful the parking batch of The Shops astatine Kenilworth connected Kenilworth Drive, according to police. He aboriginal died aft being taken to the hospital.

“Together arsenic a assemblage we mourn this tragic nonaccomplishment of beingness and connection our deepest sympathies to the Ransom family,” the assemblage said successful a statement. “We inquire that you delight support them and their extended household and friends successful supplication during this hard time.”

Ransom was a Philadelphia autochthonal who was known to beryllium precise studious. Students who knew him said helium was often successful the library. Ransom’s friends said helium made heavy connections with truthful galore radical adjacent with the freshmen who’ve lone been connected field for a fewer weeks.

“He told maine astir however I shouldn’t miss classes and however I request to enactment connected apical of things. Where I’m from, we telephone that a antheral to antheral talk,” said Lyvell Barvour, a Morgan State University Freshman

“Even though we are freshmen and Barry is an upperclassman, Barry felt similar 1 of us, similar we came into this schoolhouse with Barry,” said Jaden Bennett a Morgan State University freshman. “We lone knew him for truthful agelong but helium made that benignant of impact.”

In archetypal reports, constabulary said the unfortunate and the fishy were unneurotic erstwhile the shooting happened. They judge Ransom was targeted.

Authorities said detectives are inactive pursuing up connected leads, including 1 Ransom was capable to stock earlier helium died.

“There was a vague statement that was provided by the victim, due to the fact that the unfortunate was live erstwhile our officers arrived connected the scene,” constabulary spokesperson Joy Stewart said. “It was lone aft helium was transported to the infirmary that helium died.”

This nonaccomplishment comes conscionable days aft different Morgan State University pupil was changeable connected field arsenic homecoming activities wrapped up. That pupil survived.

And conscionable arsenic the assemblage was wrapping their minds astir that erstwhile shooting, past came the quality that Ransom, a son, member and person volition nary longer locomotion connected this campus.

“Now that he’s truly gone, I can’t speech to him nary much astir things we’ve been talking about. And it’s like, erstwhile you can’t speech to that idiosyncratic nary more, you don’t cognize what to do, you don’t cognize who other to speech to astir it,” said Barvour.

Morgan State University said counseling volition beryllium disposable for members of their assemblage who request it.

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The assemblage said, “In times similar this, delight beryllium reminded that counselors successful the University Counseling Center are ever disposable for those successful request of assistance. The Center tin beryllium reached astatine 443-885-3130.”