Crime & Safety
Fight At CCBC Owings Mills Results In Charges: Police
A disturbance in a classroom led to the discovery of an armed gunman at CCBC Owings Mills, police said.

OWINGS MILLS, MD — A Randallstown man was charged after allegedly threatening to shoot a classmate this week at CCBC Owings Mills. Police said Kenneth Kendall Sharp, 27, of the unit block of Jolie Court, was arrested Wednesday night and has a bail review hearing on Friday.
Sharp had allegedly called his classmate, a 20-year-old Randallstown man, an obscenity when the younger man asked a question of their instructor. Police said that officers were called to the campus in the 10300 block of Grand Central Avenue for a disturbance in a classroom at 7:10 p.m.
A verbal argument escalated into a pushing and punching match in the classroom before a second instructor separated the two and removed Sharp, police said. When Sharp returned and pushed the victim, officials said a public safety officer on campus removed him.
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The victim said that Sharp threatened to go get his gun in the parking lot and shoot the younger man, according to police.
Responding officers spotted Sharp, who was carrying a large duffel bag into the school building and tried to discard it when he saw law enforcement, police said. Authorities detained him and he admitted the bag had a rifle inside, according to officials. Police said he had a loaded magazine and ammunition in his pants pocket, with more ammunition found in his vehicle.
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Sharp was charged with first and second-degree assault and possession of a firearm on school property.
Photo of Kenneth Kendall Sharp courtesy of Baltimore County Police Department.
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