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Post Trib
December 9, 2014
A deal to buy marijuana in Gary led to the shooting death of a 17-year-old Lansing, Illinois, girl, police said Friday.
Ashley Scott was shot and killed while she sat in a car with three other teens who went to Gary to buy pot Wednesday evening.
Ronald McMahan, 19, of 1750 Clark Road, is charged with murder, murder in perpetration of a robbery and three counts of attempted robbery. McMahan admitted to police he shot at — and into — the car, but claimed the driver, of Hammond, pointed a weapon at him first, the probable cause affidavit states.
Police recovered no other weapons during their investigation, however, sources said.
Scott was the passenger in a Pontiac Grand Prix when the four teens went to 15th Avenue and Burr Street to meet the person who would sell them the pot, court records state. After driving west a short distance to Clinton Street, they stopped and spoke to McMahan, who allegedly pointed a revolver at them and demanded cash and weapons.
The driver told Detectives Cpl. Edward Gonzalez and Daryl Gordon he sped away as McMahan fired at them, striking Scott in the neck. He drove west on 15th Avenue across Cline Avenue to the McDonald’s on 169th Street in Hammond where Scott was pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver and his other passengers, both from Highland, cooperated with detectives in the investigation, the probable cause affidavit indicates.
Within hours of the shooting, police identified McMahan as the suspect and went to an apartment on Clark Road where he lives with his grandmother.
McMahan told Detective Lorenzo Davis he met the four teens to sell them marijuana but said “he produced his weapon as a result of being confronted with a weapon by the driver,” the affidavit states.
McMahan was arrested late Wednesday and is being held without bail at the Lake County Jail in Crown Point.
