Baltimore County police have arrested and charged four men in the shooting and paralyzing of an African immigrant who moved to Pikesville looking for a better life.
A college student who hoped to become an electrical engineer, Herve Massaba, 24, was walking on the 3700 block of Rolling Road in Windsor Mill after taking a Maryland Transit Administration bus from his job to go home when four males began chasing him.
They forced him to some bushes between Rolling Road and Valdivia Court, robbed him of his iPod, and when Massaba resisted, they shot him with a handgun once in the upper torso, police said.
During warranted searches of two of the suspects? residences, detectives said they recovered Massaba?s iPod and the handgun used in the shooting.
Massaba was taken to Northwest Hospital and later transferred to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center.
The injury will leave Massaba paralyzed from the chest down, police said.
The four men arrested and charged are identified as:
» Carlos Tulio Fisher, 22, of Gwynn Oak
» Derrick Henry Leroy Jacobs, 29, of Randallstown
» Rodney Taureen Moore, 24, of Windsor Mill
» Riyan Seth-Jordan Williams, 18, of Pikesville
All four suspects were arrested during various times Friday and have been charged with attempted first-degree murder, first-degree assault and armed robbery. Moore also is charged with possession of a fire- arm. They are being held at the Baltimore County Detention Center.
