Man Charged with Shooting UMD Medical School Employee Told Police They Had Dated

2/6/19

By Ethan McLeod, Baltimore Fishbowl

A Hollins Market man arrested for allegedly shooting a University of Maryland School of Medicine employee told investigators yesterday that he and the victim had been in a relationship and that he wanted him dead, according to charging documents.

“I wanted to kill him… I want him dead,” Jamar Haughton allegedly told detectives while confessing to the shooting, according to a statement of probable cause. “I shot him in the eye and if he doesn’t die I will not stop!”

Haughton, 24, has been charged with attempted murder, assault, reckless endangerment and several gun-related offenses in the shooting of a 26-year-old man near an ambulance bay outside the entrance to Shock Trauma the University of Maryland Medical Center.

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