D.C. man charged in deadly Oxon Hill stabbing

Prince George’s County police charged a Washington, D.C., man after a fatal stabbing outside a business on Audrey Lane in Oxon Hill, where 44-year-old Corye Trapp was found with multiple stab wounds and later died at a hospital. Officers responded about 6:35 p.m. on June 24 to the unit block of Audrey Lane, near the Eastover Shopping Center and the Giant Food store at 20 Audrey Lane, along the busy Audrey Lane and Indian Head Highway corridor.

Detectives identified the suspect as 38-year-old Anthony Joseph Key of Washington, D.C., and said he was charged with murder. Patrol officers, with help from the Prince George’s County Police Department Real Time Crime Center, located Key in the 4900 block of Indian Head Highway, a rapid sequence that moved the case from an active stabbing scene to an arrest on one of Oxon Hill’s busiest roads.

The killing unfolded in a commercial area where shoppers, drivers and pedestrians move through a tight stretch of retail and roadway traffic. The scene’s proximity to Eastover Shopping Center makes the case especially visible to nearby businesses, which rely on the corridor for daily activity and foot traffic.

Prince George’s County police say the department is the fourth-largest law enforcement agency in Maryland, with more than 1,500 officers and 300 civilians serving nearly 900,000 residents and business owners. The department also maintains an open-data portal with crime incidents from February 2017 to the present. Anyone with information about homicide cases can contact the Homicide Unit at 301-516-2512.

Investigators have not publicly said what sparked the confrontation, whether Trapp and Key knew each other or whether anyone else saw the moments before the stabbing. Those unanswered questions keep the case centered not only on the arrest, but on the safety of a corridor that draws heavy daily use from Oxon Hill residents and surrounding businesses.