Oscar Adams has been out on bail, with a first-degree murder charge looming overhead, for months since the March shooting that left a pregnant woman dying outside a Charles Street nightclub.
Adams reportedly told police soon after his arrest that it was his friend and now co-defendant, Kevin Lomax, who fired at a group of people outside Club Choices and hit Ashley Harris, a bystander. Both men, now 19, were charged with murder, but only Lomax stayed in jail pending trial. He refused to talk about the shooting then.
On Wednesday, noting that Lomax recently spoke up and reversed the allegations, a Baltimore City prosecutor asked a circuit judge to yank Adams? bail and lock him up until the March trial date.
“We have enough evidence at this point to solidify our position,” prosecutor D?Arcy Byrnes said, “that it was, in fact, Mr. Adams shooting the gun.”
Byrnes called Adams a flight risk and said he might try to intimidate or retaliate against Lomax for telling investigators they had the wrong trigger man.
Judge Martin Welch asked to learn more about Adams? family ties before deciding at a Friday hearing whether to revoke or increase his $50,000 bail. He ordered Adams to stay away from Lomax?s family.
Defense attorney Roland Walker dismissed the new allegations as retribution against Adams for implicating Lomax.
“You told on me, I?m going to get back and say you did it,” Walker told Welch at the bench. “That?s all this is.”
In the early morning hours of March 31 a brawl involving as many as 40 people ? including Lomax and Adams ? broke out inside Club Choices. Both men got into an Acura and then bullets sprayed out.
Harris, who was six months pregnant, was hit in the torso. She died soon after.
