Ghanaian Student Shot To Death In Baltimore

(WJZ) BALTIMORE City police are looking for a suspect in Monday's mid-morning murder of a Morgan State University student not far from campus.

Richard Asare, a 24-year-old from Montgomery County, was walking in the 1300 block of East Coldspring Lane when someone approached and shot him. A short time later, someone called WBAL Radio and told the talk show host that his friend had just called him to say he had seen the shooting. Police are anxious to speak to either the caller or to the witness.

"Right after the shooting, we sent an alert to 2,000 students who signed up for our free new emergency notification service," Morgan State University's Director of Public Relations Clint Coleman told Richard Sher.

Coleman says more of Morgan's nearly 7,000 students need to sign up for that system.

Anyone with information about the murder is asked to call City Homicide at 410-396-2100.

Homicide victim named

Richard Kakari Asare, 24, a Morgan State University student from Glen Burnie, has been identified as the man shot about 11:20 a.m. Monday while walking in the 1300 block of E. Cold Spring Lane, about three blocks from the school. Asare, of the 8000 block of High Oak Court, died a short time later at Johns Hopkins Hospital. No arrest had been made.