"This is still unbelievable, I don't know. He was such a very, very good person," Carl's fiancé Drexie Charles told Action News Sunday afternoon.
Drexie found it hard to believe her fiancée who she was planning to marry on August 27th is now gone after being an innocent bystander in a shooting rampage.
"I still can't believe that he's gone. I have to actually see that he's not here. I can't believe he's gone," she said.
Bullet holes, as many as ten, on the front door of the Genesis Tavern at the intersection of Wayne and Roberts avenues paint a dramatic picture of the violence that took place early this morning.
Police say the incident began when bouncers removed a male patron from the tavern for causing a disturbance.
At around 12:45 a.m., authorities say the man returned and, from outside, opened fire into the tavern.
"I thought it was cherry bombs or firecrackers, I wasn't going pay it no mind til I heard people screaming and running," resident Kathy Dixon said.
One woman who was in the bar, but did not want to be identified, spoke to Action News.
"Everybody just fell down, people just pushed people, [I heard] 'get down, get down, get down,'" the woman said. "[There were] people on the floor bleeding, people trying to leave."
Police say the gunman not only shot and killed Sharper, a man he didn't know, but also struck a 46-year-old woman twice in the stomach; she is in critical condition.
A 33-year-old man was shot twice in the back and is also in critical.
A 36-year-old man was shot in the legs, a 20-year-old woman shot in the arm and another woman was grazed by flying glass.
Meanwhile, Sharper's family, who immigrated to Philadelphia from Guyana some 30 years ago, are stricken with grief trying to understand why their one and only son is dead.
"It is very hard and sad to me. My feelings are very hurt. And most I can say is that I wish God could bring back my son," Carl's mother Prudence said.
A friend of Carl's, Anthony Wheeler, says Sharper was just in a wedding with him last week and they were all looking forward to Sharper's own wedding next month.
"He's just about to get married, so now instead of a wedding, we got to put together a funeral," Wheeler said.
Police are still trying to identify the shooter as they question witnesses and sort through surveillance video.
The suspect is described as an African-American male, in his 30's, with a beard. He was last seen wearing a white shirt and khaki pants.
Officers say that the gunman fled in a maroon-colored vehicle going east on Roberts Avenue.
Anyone with information on the gunman or his whereabouts is being asked to call the Philadelphia Police Department.