WHEATON, MD – A suspect wanted for several armed carjackings including the carjacking of a woman in front of her children, has been arrested.
After multiple carjackings and shootings in D.C. and Montgomery County, a Washington, D.C. man has been arrested. A Major Crimes detective learned through the course of the investigation that Monteray Horn, 43, had boarded a Metro train in Anacostia earlier in the day, armed with a handgun, and shot an adult male on the train.
Horn then went on a crime spree.
When the train stopped, Horn left the Metro and carjacked a vehicle driven by a woman in Washington, D.C. at gunpoint. The bullet went through the victim’s clothing but not strike her.
He abandoned that vehicle and boarded the Metro train, riding it to the Wheaton Metro stop where, at approximately 11:06 a.m., he attempted to carjack an Audi from the Westfield Wheaton Mall.
In order to get the keys to the Audi, Horn pointed the gun at an adult female with two young children. She managed to get her children out of the car and run away. Horn entered the Audi but was unable to start it despite having the key.
Detectives said Horn abandoned the Audi and attempted to rob another car, a small red Honda. A third car, which was parked in the lot, but the driver sped away.
He attempted to carjack another car, a BMW, but the driver sped away. Horn fired at the BMW, shooting out the window. The female driver was not injured.
A woman in a Hyundai Tucson approached Horn, and he attempted to open the car’s door. Horn ran across the parking lot, where he tried to carjack a fifth vehicle on Ring Road. Horn then shot the adult female in the face but could not steal her Honda Civic.
Horn then fled. Police in the 4th District tracked Horn to a residential area in the 2900 block of Faulkner Place. With the butt of his gun, Horn attempted to smash a window into a house, but officers arrived, and Horn was arrested without incident at approximately 11:15 a.m.
Officers arrested Horn at the scene without incident, and a .40 caliber handgun was found. The Honda driver underwent surgery at a local hospital and is in a serious but stable condition.
Major Crimes Division detectives are asking the driver of the second attempted carjacking or any other witnesses to get in touch with them at 240-773-5070.