High Schooler Charged With 18-Year-Old’s Murder Denied Bail

By Andrew Michaels - January 30, 2024
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A Baltimore City Circuit Court judge denied bail for an 18-year-old on Jan. 30 after he allegedly shot and killed Carlos Carrazana-Ricardo in West Baltimore’s Mosher neighborhood in November 2023.

During Tuesday’s bail review, the prosecutor and defense attorney Jeremy Eldridge agreed that the defendant, Marques Harris, was selling his car and arranged to meet with the 18-year-old victim after the latter expressed interest on Facebook Marketplace. However, Harris’ location at the time of the shooting is in dispute.

Eldridge told Judge Yolanda A. Tanner that Harris, who was an 11th-grader at Frederick Douglass High School at the time of the shooting, cooperated with the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) and was deemed a suspect only because he had contact with and tried to sell his car to Carrazana-Ricardo on Nov. 26, 2023, on the 2700 block of Harlem Avenue.

No witnesses identified Harris as the shooter nor was there any allegation that this was a botched robbery, defense counsel said.

According to the prosecution, video footage recovered from the scene contradicted Harris’ statement to police that he was driving away when he heard shots fired coming from behind him. Instead, she continued, there is evidence that Harris was still at the scene when the shooting occurred.

Judge Tanner denied Harris’ bail, saying that at the end of the day, he was a minor in possession of a firearm who was on probation for another firearm-related violation.

Harris is next scheduled to appear in reception court on April 23. His charges include two counts of first-degree murder and firearm use in a felony or violent crime and single counts of attempted first and second-degree murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, being a minor in possession of a firearm and having a handgun on his person.