East Baton Rouge Parish deputies took 44-year-old Stephanie Sharp into custody and booked her early Wednesday morning after a shooting that left bullet holes in a car with two people inside. She also faces charges of aggravated criminal damage to property, obstruction of justice, and possession of a firearm by a person convicted of a felony.
According to WBRZ, deputies were called to investigate a shooting along Fontainebleau Drive on August 10. Investigators say a man had driven to that address to pick up another person who had previously been in a physical altercation with Sharp. That person has denied knowing anything about the shooting beforehand, the station reports.
Deputies say Sharp arrived at the scene with a gun, pointed it at the two people inside the car, and fired three shots. Deputies say two of those shots struck the vehicle. The station notes that Sharp admitted firing at the pair, telling investigators she only meant to scare the driver.
Spent Cartridges and a Hidden Weapon
Investigators reportedly recovered spent cartridges at the address where the shooting happened. The report also states that after the shooting, Sharp handed the gun to another person and told that person to hide it. She also faces an obstruction of justice charge, in addition to the attempted-murder counts.
The felon-in-possession charge traces back to 2017, when, per the same account, Sharp was convicted of drug offenses. That earlier conviction is cited as the reason she was legally barred from having a gun at all. Louisiana's felony-firearm statute, R.S. 14:95.1, governs possession of a firearm by people convicted of certain felonies, while the state's general attempt statute, R.S. 14:27, defines an attempted crime as an act done with specific intent that tends directly toward completing the offense.
A Second Case Against the Same Name
In a separate case, Sharp and a woman named Brittany Camel were accused of dragging a 15-year-old girl alongside a moving Honda before Camel allegedly turned the car around and ran over the teen. Both women were charged with attempted second-degree murder and hit and run in that incident.
Baton Rouge has seen other recent gunfire cases investigated by the same sheriff's office. In a separate interstate shooting in August, deputies responded to Pecue Lane near Woodridge Avenue around 8:30 a.m. after a passenger in a Nissan was shot and hospitalized with injuries described as not life-threatening, as reported by WAFB. The man later arrested in that case, 22-year-old Lenard Riney, was charged with three counts of attempted first-degree murder after admitting he fired a handgun from his car at the Nissan, the station reported.
No court outcome has been reported in Sharp's new case, and the charges against her remain accusations at this stage.
