Roland Park homicide victim Joseph Barranco was ‘Ice Cream Joe’ to public, ever-present help to family

You could always tell Joseph Barranco was nearby if you were within a 50-yard radius of him, his family members joked. With a thick, loud, Italian-Baltimorean accent and a knack for talking to strangers, the Loch Raven native “had a presence,” his niece’s husband, William Moore, said. That’s why he loved selling ice cream from a truck, and part of why he started handing out rosaries to the people he met later in life. He simply liked people. “He had so much love in his heart,” his niece, Maria Moore,...