Bowie teen accused in carjacking also linked to shooting, police say

The carjacking of Prince George’s County’s circuit court clerk became more than a single robbery case when police linked the same 18-year-old suspect to a separate shooting that left a man seriously wounded days earlier.

Prince George’s County police said Kairee Hicks of Bowie was accused of confronting an adult woman on April 16 in the 1900 block of Grand Way Boulevard in Bowie around 12:40 p.m. The woman was not injured, but police said Hicks displayed a handgun and took her 2014 Lexus sedan.

The victim was identified in local coverage as Mahasin El Amin, the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, a post listed by Maryland Courts. El Amin said the suspect approached her wearing a face mask and a brown hoodie, and she had briefly pulled over near Woodmore Town Center and Landover Road to take a phone call before the carjacking occurred.

Police said the stolen Lexus was found Friday in the Lanham area. When officers tried to stop the vehicle, Hicks fled, triggering a brief chase that ended in a crash. Hicks then ran on foot, but officers apprehended him after a coordinated search. During the arrest, police said they recovered a loaded handgun with an obliterated serial number.

Hicks faces multiple charges, including armed carjacking, carjacking, use of a firearm in the commission of a crime of violence, illegal possession of a handgun, and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number, among other counts. Investigators also obtained an arrest warrant tying him to an April 10 shooting in the 7100 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Highway, where police said a man was shot and seriously wounded during an argument.

The two cases give the arrest a wider public-safety significance. What began as a gunpoint carjacking near Bowie’s shopping and commuter corridors quickly expanded into a broader violent-crime file involving a separate shooting on one of the county’s major roads. The speed with which police connected the Lexus, the handgun and the earlier shooting will likely shape how prosecutors present the case and how county leaders assess the risk posed by young repeat suspects moving through multiple violent incidents before an arrest is made.