Same gun links Landover shooting, Bowie clerk carjacking in Prince George's County

A single handgun now links two violent incidents across Prince George’s County, raising hard questions about how quickly danger moved from a Landover convenience store to a Bowie roadway.

Police say a 35-year-old county man was shot in the neck during a dispute at a 24-hour store in the 7100 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Highway just before 9 p.m. on April 10. He is now paralyzed from the neck down and remains in a hospital bed, according to NBC4 Washington. His mother said he is an active father of two young daughters, fun-loving, hardworking and a positive presence in the community. She also said this was the second time he had been shot in the neck, after a 2010 shooting from which he recovered fully.

Investigators later said the same teen suspect in that shooting also carried out the armed carjacking of Prince George’s County Circuit Court Clerk Mahasin El Amin. That robbery happened around 12:40 p.m. on April 16 near the 1900 block of Grand Way Boulevard in Bowie, close to Woodmore Towne Center. El Amin said the suspect came to her passenger side, opened the door, displayed a gun and drove off in her Lexus. She said he wore a face mask and a brown hoodie, and that she had pulled over to take a phone call before the carjacking. A bystander called 911. El Amin was not injured.

Police arrested 18-year-old Kairee Hicks of Bowie and said officers recovered a loaded handgun with an obliterated serial number during the arrest. WUSA9 reported that it was a loaded .40 caliber handgun. Hicks faces 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. Police also say he is charged in connection with the April 10 shooting.

The case has become more than a single carjacking or a single shooting. It shows how one suspect and one gun may have moved through the county in a matter of days, leaving a paralyzed victim in Landover and a court clerk targeted in Bowie. That overlap puts a spotlight on warning signs, investigation speed and the limits of intervention before violence spread again.

Prince George’s County Police say the department serves nearly 900,000 residents and business owners with more than 1,500 officers and 300 civilian employees, a scale that underscores how much is at stake when a weapon circulates from one violent encounter to the next.