{"id":29490,"date":"2025-02-18T07:45:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T12:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/?p=29490"},"modified":"2025-02-18T07:49:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T12:49:24","slug":"maryland-state-police-arrest-prince-georges-co-man-following-alleged-armed-road-rage-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/2025\/02\/18\/maryland-state-police-arrest-prince-georges-co-man-following-alleged-armed-road-rage-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland State Police Arrest Prince George’s Co. Man Following Alleged Armed Road Rage Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(FORESTVILLE, MD) \u2013 Maryland State Police arrested a man and seized two loaded handguns following an alleged armed road rage incident that occurred Saturday afternoon in Prince George\u2019s County.<\/p>\n

The accused is identified as Kenyatta Von Williams Jr., 34, of Suitland, Maryland. Following consultation with the Office of the State\u2019s Attorney in Prince George\u2019s County, Williams was charged with first and second-degree assault, and using a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence. \u00a0Williams was transported to the Prince George\u2019s County Detention Center for an appearance before a court commissioner.<\/p>\n

Shortly after 3:20 p.m. on February 15, troopers from the Maryland State Police Forestville Barrack received a call for the report of an alleged road rage incident on the inner loop of Interstate 495, in the area of Route 210 in Prince George\u2019s County. \u00a0The victim, who is not being identified at this time, told State Troopers the driver of a Porsche, later identified as Williams, reportedly pointed a firearm at him while traveling on I-495. No injuries were reported at the scene.<\/p>\n

Troopers from the Maryland State Police Highway Gun Crimes Initiative assumed the investigation. Through review of dashcam and other data sources, Williams was identified as the suspect. Subsequently, investigators located his vehicle yesterday at a residence in Suitland.\u00a0 Authorized search warrants on the vehicle and the associated residence resulted in the seizure of \u00a0two loaded handguns.<\/p>\n

The Maryland Department of State Police is dedicated to creating safer communities within Maryland, including actively addressing all reported incidents of gun violence on our highways. \u00a0Police continue to seek information in the investigations into the murders of Delonte Hicks, Charles Marks, and Nyah Hairston.\u00a0 Police urge anyone with information relating to these investigations or other highway gun crimes, to contact investigators by calling 410-538-1887. Callers may remain anonymous.<\/p>\n

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CONTACT:\u00a0 Office of Media Communications, msp.media@maryland.gov<\/p>\n

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(FORESTVILLE, MD) \u2013 Maryland State Police arrested a man and seized two loaded handguns following an alleged armed road rage incident that occurred Saturday afternoon in Prince George\u2019s County. The accused is identified as Kenyatta Von Williams Jr., 34, of Suitland, Maryland. Following consultation with the Office of the State\u2019s Attorney in Prince George\u2019s County,  Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,28,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barracksl-forestville","category-press-releases","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29490"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29494,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29490\/revisions\/29494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}