The Baltimore County State’s Attorney’s Office released a statement that Rylan Picard-Kevin Harris, 31, was sentenced today in the Baltimore County Circuit Court to Life imprisonment with 20 years consecutive for Murder and Attempted First Degree Murder after an incident on 702 in Essex. The press release is below:
Rylan Picard-Kevin Harris, 31, was sentenced today in the Baltimore County Circuit Court to Life imprisonment with 20 years consecutive for Murder and Attempted First Degree Murder.
On May 5, 2023, Shalia Hendrix was driving on Route 702 in Essex with a friend when she was shot in the back from a nearby car travelling in the same direction. The car Ms. Hendrix was driving spun out of control and crashed into a wooded and marshy area off of Route 702 and near Eastern Boulevard.
Ms. Hendrix died as a result of the one gunshot. The incident appears to have been a random act of road rage with no known connection between the victims and the defendant.
Detective Metz and other members of the Homicide Unit of the Baltimore County Police investigated the incident thoroughly.
They were able to obtain video surveillance from businesses and traffic cameras and were able to identify the car of the victim and the car from which the shot was fired. They were able to determine that the victims and Harris were travelling out of Baltimore City, onto I-695 and then on to Route 702.
The detective was also able to obtain surveillance video of the Defendants’ car after the shooting and it’s return to his residence in Baltimore City.
It was determined that Harris was the person who fired the shot and that he was with Darashea Gross at the time.
Gross plead guilty previously to being an Accessory After the Fact.
Judge Michael Finifter sentenced Harris to Life for the Attempted First Degree Murder of the passenger in Ms. Hendrix’s car, and 40 years for the Second Degree Murder of Ms. Hendrix.
He was also sentenced to a consecutive term of twenty years for the Use of a Firearm in the Commission of a Crime of Violence.
States Attorney Scott Shellenberger stated: “I want to express my appreciation to the excellent work of the Baltimore County Police in solving this senseless act of apparent road rage. I offer my condolences to the family and loved ones of Ms. Hendrix and hope that the just sentence in this case will help in some way in coping with their loss.”
The case was prosecuted by David Lemanski and Jessica Borits.
