PGPD arrests armed suspect on Walker Mill Road, recovers stolen gun
PGPD says officers took a suspect into custody on Walker Mill Road and recovered a stolen firearm, a result that puts renewed focus on guns moving through Prince George’s County.
Police recovered a stolen gun and took a suspect into custody without incident in the 6700 block of Walker Mill Road, a stretch near Walker Mill Road and Karen Boulevard that has drawn repeated attention because of prior gun violence.
The Prince George’s County Police Department said it responded to a report of an armed person and secured the scene without injuries or any reported confrontation. The stolen firearm now adds another weapon to the county’s tally of guns that have moved from theft into police hands, a problem that can start in a vehicle, a home or another unsecured location before ending up on a street like Walker Mill Road.
That block has seen serious violence before. In December 2024, police tied two shootings to the same 6700 block, including one on Dec. 17 that left people with non-life-threatening injuries and another on Dec. 18 that killed a convenience store employee. Four days later, a homicide on Walker Mill Road became the county’s 100th reported homicide of 2024, underscoring why even a routine armed-person call in that corridor carries unusual weight for nearby residents and businesses.
PGPD is the fourth-largest law enforcement agency in Maryland and serves nearly 900,000 residents with more than 1,500 officers and 300 civilians. Residents can reach the department’s non-emergency line at 301-352-1200, and the county’s crime-incident data portal tracks reported incidents from February 2017 to the present, with locations rounded to the nearest hundred block to protect confidentiality.
For people living near Walker Mill Road, the immediate prevention steps are straightforward: lock vehicles and homes, store firearms unloaded and secured, and report thefts right away. The faster a stolen gun is reported, the sooner investigators can enter it into their systems and look for links to other cases. In a corridor that has already absorbed too much violence, preventing the next stolen gun from moving back onto the street is the difference that matters most.
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