On HBO?s The Wire, she?s the most ruthless hit woman in Baltimore. In real life, Felicia Pearson and a friend, Steven Lashley, 28, of Dundalk, were hanging out along The Block in Baltimore at 2:20 a.m. on Sept. 22, 2005, when Pearson got involved in an argument with a man named Tyrell Roseborough inside New York Fried Chicken, police said.
“The argument appears to have started because Tyrell attempted to ?holler? at Felicia Pearson and she rebuffed him,” Baltimore homicide detective Todd Corriveau wrote in a report. “At the time, Lashley and Felicia Pearson were friends and sometimes met with each other/sat in strip clubs on ?the block.? ”
The argument escalated, with Lashley joining on Pearson?s side and Tyrell Roseborough?s brother, Raymond, and friend, Stanley Thomas, joining on his side, police said.
Police officers then entered the eatery and made the five people leave.
As the two groups departed, their cars happened to be parked near each other, at Water and Commerce streets, police said.
The argument continued, and Lashley drew a knife and stabbed the three men, killing Thomas, police said.
In a taped interview with police, Pearson denied that her rejection of Roseborough caused the argument.
After Corriveau questioned her about the fight?s origin, she responded: “I don?t really know ?cause he came in all drunk and rowdy and whatever, and the man just start saying (inaudible) drunk,” according to a transcript.
Corriveau then asked her if Roseborough tried to flirt.
“He ain?t try to flirt with me or no [expletive] like that,” Pearson responded. “It was so tight in there. … He was saying something like um I don?t know what the [expletive] hewas (inaudible) but I mean, I?m like what (inaudible) [expletive] man get out of my face.”
The detective then asked whether she knew Lashley was going to stab the men.
“Hell no,” she said.
Pearson, who recently published a book called “Grace after Midnight: A Memoir,” could not be reached for comment. In 1996, she was sentenced to eight years in prison after being convicted of second-degree murder.
Lashley?s first-degree murder case was postponed Wednesday.
