16-Year-Old Teen to Plea Guilty to Inner Harbor Shooting Last Year

By Andrew Michaels - May 31, 2023
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A 16-year-old teenager is expected to plead guilty to a triple shooting at the Inner Harbor last spring that left one dead and two injured.

Sterling Ingram, who was 15 at the time of the shooting, is currently charged as an adult with first-degree murder as well as multiple counts of conspiracy to first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, and weapons charges for the incident on May 28, 2022.

A year later, on May 31, Ingram and his defense counsel, John Cox, appeared before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Barry Williams to accept the prosecution’s plea offer for lesser included offenses, specifically one count of second-degree murder and two counts of attempted second-degree murder.

Both Cox and the prosecutor informed Judge Williams that their previous motion to transfer Ingram back to juvenile court was denied but that they plan to argue this motion once more on an unspecified date. If the case is not transferred to juvenile court, the prosecutor continued, he will recommend a sentence of 40 years, suspending all but 20 years, with five years of supervised probation for the aforementioned charges.

Judge Williams scheduled Ingram for sentencing on Aug. 17.

According to the prosecutor, Baltimore Police were at the Inner Harbor near 201 East Pratt Street when shots were fired shortly after 7:30 p.m. Two victims were found with gunshot wounds to their chests and taken to Shock Trauma, where one of the victims later died. A third victim was also found with a graze wound to the head.

The incident allegedly occurred near the Inner Harbor Amphitheater, where an argument broke out between two groups of people. The prosecutor said that video surveillance footage showed six men approaching two people who were riding a moped, one of whom was later identified as the defendant. As one of the six men reached for the defendant, Ingram pulled out a gun and fired it before getting back on the moped and driving away.

Police were able to track the driver of the moped and the defendant as the passenger. One of the non-fatal shooting victims also informed police that Ingram appeared scared because of the size of the other group and wasn’t specifically trying to shoot the victim.