Elkridge Man handed 25 year sentence for fatal double shooting in Glen Burnie

BALTIMORE - An Elkridge man will serve 25 years in prison for his role in a deadly February 2020 double shooting, the Anne Arundel County State's Attorney's office announced Monday.  

Anne Arundel County State's Attorney Anne Colt Leitess said Monday that Alkein Coates, 24, of Elkridge was sentenced to 60 years suspend all but 25 years in prison.    

On February 22, 2020, in the early morning,  Anne Arundel County Police responded to a reported shooting in the 200 block of Poplar Avenue.  There they found 24-year-old Richard Clarence Ramsey III and another 26-year-old man suffering from gunshot wounds.  Ramsey was pronounced dead at the scene.    

The Arundel States Attorney's office described the incident as a drug deal gone wrong.  Detectives learned that three male suspects entered the victim's garage to make a marijuana sale.  Once entering the garage, one of the suspects drew a gun, shot, and killed Mr. Ramsay.  

"Although the defendant didn't pull the trigger and kill Mr. Coates, he set up the marijuana deal and his participation in the robbery made him as culpable as his associate," State's Attorney Anne Colt Leitess said in a statement.