Accused Edgewood Mass Shooter Convicted In Delaware Attack

WILMINGTON, DE — The man accused of gunning down his coworkers in Harford County before opening fire on an acquaintance in Wilmington, Delaware, has been found guilty of attempted manslaughter. The gunman and his victim had a rocky history, attorneys on both sides agreed at last week's trial.

Radee Labeeb Prince, 38, was charged in Delaware with attempted first-degree murder, reckless endangerment and other offenses. He was found guilty Tuesday of attempted manslaughter, reckless endangering, resisting arrest, carrying a concealed weapon and two counts of possession of a firearm during commission of a felony, WTOP reports.

Prosecutors argued that Prince intended to kill Jason Baul, the owner of a Delaware car dealership, motivated by a grudge because Baul did not give him a job and an ongoing dispute, according to The News Journal.

Prince testified that he feared Baul, with whom he had several run-ins, and said the shooting was in self-defense. WTOP says Prince will be sentenced Aug. 31; he faces at least eight years in prison and a maximum of 89 years behind bars.

After the shootings in Edgewood that left three people dead and two injured, the newspaper said Prince stopped at a Walmart in Wilmington, Delaware, to purchase more bullets before he headed to confront Baul.

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Recordings from the car dealership showed that Prince intended for his victim to die, prosecutors said, after he shot the victim in the head and pelvis, then pistol-whipped him and told him to "bleed out" as he left the scene, the newspaper reported. The bullet struck the victim's cheek and became lodged in his spine, where it is still located, according to The News Journal.

Prince's attorney reportedly asked the jury to refrain from assuming he planned to kill the victim and said that over the course of their relationship, the victim had assaulted Prince, hired a hit man to kill him and at the funeral for Prince's father, threatened him with a gun.

"He was just evil," Baul's mother told WBAL of Prince, who has known her family for years. "I know that God's gonna make sure he's not coming home ever again."

Harford County State's Attorney Joseph Cassilly said that Prince would be tried in Wilmington before his case was heard in Bel Air because — despite the fact that Prince faces three murder charges in Maryland — he could be sentenced to life without parole if convicted on the attempted murder charge in Delaware. He was convicted of the lesser crime of attempted manslaughter.

Three people died in the shootings at Advanced Granite Solutions in Edgewood, where Prince is accused of opening fire on his coworkers at 8:58 a.m. on Oct. 18, 2017.

Prince, of the 100 block of Clinton Street in Elkton, reportedly then drove a black SUV from Maryland to Delaware.

The shooting at the car dealership in the 2800 block of Northeast Boulevard in Wilmington, Delaware, took place at 10:46 a.m.

"He drove straight from Maryland to that individual," the police chief in Wilmington said afterward at a press conference, stating of Prince and his victim: "They have a past history."

Prince was apprehended in Delaware following a manhunt that lasted hours; he was taken into custody by federal agents and local officers at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 18, 2017, nearly 11 hours after the Edgewood shootings.

In addition to attempted murder, Prince is charged in Delaware with reckless endangerment, carrying a concealed weapon, resisting arrest, possessing a firearm in a felony crime, illegal possession of ammunition and illegal possession of a firearm.

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Photo of Radee Prince from Harford County Sheriff's Office/Maryland State Police/FBI.