Victim Of Deadly Towson Shooting ID’d As Morgan State University Student

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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.

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

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

“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.”

The deadly shooting marks the latest lawsuit of convulsive transgression to onslaught Baltimore County, which is grappling with a emergence successful violence.

BREAKING: WJZ has learned that Barry Ransom, who was killed this Monday successful Towson, was a Morgan State University student.

He was a inferior studying accounting.

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