[6] He graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School and briefly attended the University of the District of Columbia.
"[6] Barry formed a noteworthy construction business, Efficiency Contractors LLC, which he named in honor of his mother.
In court, he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge, acknowledging that he resisted arrest but denying punching or choking a police officer.
When Barry refused to open the door, police officers entered the apartment,[15] where they found a half-ounce vial of liquid PCP and five small plastic bags of marijuana.
A few days later, Barry was arrested for failing to obey a police officer, and the judge suspended his driver's license.
[16] In December 2014, prosecutors accepted a plea bargain to resolve charges related to the two driving incidents, and Barry was sentenced to nine months of probation.
[2] Barry claimed in April 2015 that he beat his drug problems with help from local politician Jim Graham.
[6] At a hearing in June 2015, a judge found that Barry violated the terms of his probation by driving with a revoked license.
[25] Ultimately, a plea agreement was reached[26] under which Barry pleaded guilty to all three counts and was given a 270-day suspended sentence and 12 months of probation.
[2] On January 5, 2015, Barry announced that he would run for the Council of the District of Columbia representing Ward 8, which his father's death had made vacant.
He appeared on the ballot as "Marion C. Barry",[2] and was endorsed by former mayoral candidate Sulaimon Brown and former District Council Member Jim Graham.
[28][29] When the news media asked how he would explain his legal problems to voters, Barry said his experience with drug use made him qualified to help others going through "rough times in life".
A police incident report stated that shortly before Barry suddenly "dropped", he had smoked the synthetic drug K-2 and the hallucinogen PCP.
[32] The D.C. coroner's office issued a report in November 2016 that said Barry died after smoking a lethal mixture of the synthetic cannabinoid known as "K2" and PCP.