Destiny Harrison was a professional hairstylist, a young entrepreneur and a mother to one year old daughter. She was the owner of the hair salon, named Madame D Beauty Bar on N. Milton Ave., in East Baltimore. Destiny Harrison was a proud graduate of Merganthaler Vocational Technical High School in the cosmetology program, the class of 2016.
A quick look on Destiny Harrison’s journey of becoming a professional hairstylist and a young woman entrepreneur
After her graduation, she worked at Popeye’s and Walmart. Later on, she went on to attend Bowie State University, where she majored in Business Administration, with a minor in Fashion Design. While getting good grades at Bowie and she used to work part-time at Victoria’s Secret. During this time Destiny launched her own online hair line venture, named as “Madame D Collection,” which offers a vast variety of hair care products.
Harrison became a young Mom and a young woman entrepreneur
After the birth of her daughter, in Feb. 2019, Destiny launched her own hair salon, “Madame D Beauty Bar,” on N. Milton Ave., in East Baltimore. In such a short span of time, she had become a successful inspiration to many. Being a young and successful entrepreneur, Destiny Harrison allegedly purchased a sparkling, fire engine red Mercedes Benz.
Through her passion and hard work, Harrison ‘The indefatigable hair wizard’ became an inspiration to many but her haters couldn’t stand to her success
Destiny Harrison became an inspiration, a mentor to aspiring beauticians and a role model to many young girls, despite having lots of people being inspired by her talent and exceptional and prodigious work ethic there was also an unwanted presence of those who were apparently consumed with jealousy, resentment and envy. Those people prowled in the shadows to take advantage of the young mother and successful woman entrepreneur. Before being brutally murdered, Destiny expressed her fear for her life when she was gunned down at her own Baltimore salon.
Apparently an untiring hair wizard, Destiny walked into her salon where she discovered the thugs, two filthy, thieving rats, one male, and one female robbing her of thousands of dollars’ worth of hair bundles, stomped her out and made off with $3000 worth of bundled hair extensions. Where Destiny was robbed and beaten at her own salon by two people who resided in the same area as her salon.
Destiny Harrison charged file against the thug couple
After the incident took place, Destiny Harrison filed a charged against that robbing thug couple after she caught them breaking into his salon. In written testimony, Destiny Harrison accused one of the male suspects of holding her down while the other female suspect who stomped on her after she demanded her property back and made off with her prized merchandise. After the filed charges by Destiny Harrison, the thug couple was allegedly charged with assault, theft and burglary.
Moreover, Destiny Harrison told a court commissioner in the application of criminal complaint that,
‘I know that one of the suspects have a violent background. I’m sure they picked the lock to the door and I’m scared for my life and other’s in the salon.
Destiny Harrison’s fears of life were well founded
Sadly twelve days after the robbery incident happened, another horrible and life taking incident fall upon Destiny Harrison and her family, where the reasons behind her fear of life were found right. On 21 December 2019, Saturday evening around 6:12am Baltimore City police responded to a shooting at Destiny Harrison’s beauty salon, the ‘MadamD Beauty Bar’ in the McElderry Park, the neighborhood of Southeast Baltimore. The police found a 21-year-old young woman entrepreneur fatally shot in the head to death inside her beauty salon. Destiny was immediately taken to nearby hospital where she was pronounced dead.
According to the eyewitnesses, two individuals entered the salon on with customers inside and most horrifically with her one-year old daughter present, and shot her in the head to death. After her death, Destiny Harrison’s mother Raquel said that,
“Destiny loved her daughter that was the light of her life. That was probably the most pivotal moment in her life, was her daughter.”
Being courageous enough to identify her tormenters before her death, Destiny Harrison made it clear that she feared for her life and her business and sadly in the end she didn’t receive the support or protection she needed. Until the day, the police are still being blamed for not providing her the needed protection and not taking her fear of life seriously.
The search for criminals still continues till now
The search for the criminals is still continuing, and police have not arrested assailants and criminals for her brutal murder. Whereas, investigating on Harrison’s case, the police and family is still hoping that someone will come forward to share helpful information regarding the case and homicide detectives are requesting anyone with information to call 410-396-2100 or leave an unidentified tip with Metro Crime Stoppers at 1-866-7 lockup.
According to the Police, there were other people too, who were the eyewitnesses inside the salon at the time of the shooting incident and hoping that someone comes forward with information. Col. Sheree Briscoe said,
“One or more suspects entered the salon while other people were there and shot Harrison, but would not address any of the accounts of what happened. I know that there is a conversation happening out [on] social media. That is not the investigative conversation,”
On the other hand, Harrison’s family continues to hope and echoes that plea.
“Somebody gotta know something. Please come forward. We need to get these demonic souls here. They need to pay for their crime. There’s no doubt about that, in the name of Jesus, there’s no doubt. We lost an angel due to tragedy that broke hearts all over Baltimore. We are asking that if anyone has any monetary donations we would greatly appreciate the help to lay my beautiful daughter in peace.”