Prince George’s County police said they arrested and charged a man who wounded six people in several shootings and carjacked another in a crime spree this weekend.
Authorities took Larry Simpson, 68, into custody on attempted murder and carjacking charges after a suspect attacked victims Friday at five locations in the county.
Prince George’s County Police Chief George Nader said Mr. Simpson faces 66 charges in the spree.
One victim is fighting for their life and another is in critical condition, the chief said.
Police said the rampage started around 2:30 p.m. Friday in the 5100 block of Pierce Avenue of College Park when a man pointed a long gun out of his car and opened fire.
No one was injured in the shooting; the gunman took aim at a driver near the Baltimore-Washington Parkway in Riverdale around 2:50 p.m., police said.
A bullet shattered the 64-year-old driver’s window, and broken glass cut the male victim’s head. Officials said he was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Police said the suspect crashed his car into another vehicle and flipped it near the corner of 67th Avenue and Patterson Street in Riverdale minutes later. The suspect got out of his car and began shooting at people in the area, injuring five.
The assailant then carjacked and shot at a woman near the corner of Good Luck Road and Kenilworth Avenue, police said.
“At that carjacking, an off-duty Prince George’s County police officer, who was unarmed in his personal vehicle, who was alerted that there was a shooting going on in the area by his wife, who is also a police officer, observed the carjacking … and began to follow the suspect,” Chief Nader said at a press conference.
The suspect tried to carjack another driver in the 9000 block of Edmondston Road in Greenbelt and shot at the off-duty officer who had been pursuing the attacker, police said.
U.S. Park Police officers arrived and helped bring Mr. Simpson into custody, Chief Nader said. He suggested that the suspect’s crime spree ended there because he had run out of ammunition.
Officials said they recovered an AR-15 rifle from the scene. Mr. Simpson was taken to a hospital for treatment for injuries he sustained in the car crash.
