Morgan State student fatally stabbed in fight near campus
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Version 0 of 1. A 20-year-old student at Morgan State University in Baltimore was fatally stabbed Monday night near the campus, authorities said. The victim, identified as Gerald Williams, was from Bowie, Baltimore police said. Williams was stabbed in the groin about 9:45 p.m. in the 1500 block of Pentridge Road, in the parking lot of a privately owned and operated student residence, according to police and a campus spokesman. In a statement, Baltimore police said their preliminary investigation indicated that Williams “got into an altercation with a group of males.” The dispute escalated into a fight, and one of those involved “pulled a knife” and stabbed him. A police spokesman said about 15 to 20 people were involved in the fighting. In an interview, Clinton R. Coleman, the spokesman for the 7,000-student campus in northeast Baltimore, said he understood that the victim and his assailant had been involved in a personal disagreement. It may have occurred at a basketball game played on campus Monday night, in which Morgan State defeated crosstown rival Coppin State. “These two were beefing,” Coleman said, using the slang term, “and then their friends jumped in.” Williams was taken to a hospital, where he died. As of late Tuesday, no arrest had been reported in the incident. “We know people know what happened,” Lt. Jarron Jackson, a police spokesman, said, calling for those with information to come forward. A woman who identified herself as a family friend praised Williams to a Baltimore television station. “He was a genuinely great young man,” said the woman, identified as Kathy Scarborough. Coleman, the campus spokesman, said Williams was described as affable, easygoing and not given to violence. Coleman said Williams lived at the off-campus residence where the stabbing occurred, about a half mile west of campus. In the wake of the incident, Coleman said, the campus community was “brokenhearted.” |