Crime & Safety

DC Road Rage Shooting Suspect Arrested in Costa Rica: Police

A Maryland man wanted in connection with a road rage shooting in D.C. in May was arrested on Thursday in Costa Rica, the D.C. police said.

Kenneth Miles Davis Jr., 42, of Clinton, Maryland, is going through the extradition process in Costa Rica and upon his return to D.C. will be charged on an outstanding arrest warrant for assault with a deadly weapon, D.C. police said Thursday.
Kenneth Miles Davis Jr., 42, of Clinton, Maryland, is going through the extradition process in Costa Rica and upon his return to D.C. will be charged on an outstanding arrest warrant for assault with a deadly weapon, D.C. police said Thursday. (Metropolitan Police Department)

WASHINGTON, DC — A Maryland man wanted in connection with a road rage shooting in D.C. in May was arrested on Thursday in Costa Rica, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.

Kenneth Miles Davis Jr., 42, of Clinton, Maryland, is going through the extradition process and upon his return to D.C. will be charged on an outstanding arrest warrant. In June, the MPD issued an arrest warrant for Davis on the charge of assault with a deadly weapon.

The department said Thursday that its collaboration with the U.S. Marshals Service, Department of State and Department of Homeland Security led them to Costa Rica where Davis was located.

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Police offered a $10,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of Davis.

Davis was caught on surveillance video on May 19 firing a gun at a vehicle in a road rage incident in the 1600 block of Eastern Avenue NE, according to the MPD.

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Police said that another driver attempted to change lanes in front of Davis's Maserati. Video shows Davis getting out of his car and walking up to the vehicle and firing a handgun at the female driver. Police said the woman was injured and that a child riding in the car sustained cuts caused by the shattered glass when the shooting occurred. Two children, ages 5 and 11, were in the car at the time of the shooting.

Police said Davis shot at another vehicle before leaving the area in his car.

"This individual felt like it was necessary to use gun violence to deal with his anger," D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee III said at a news conference in June. "I am here to tell him that is unacceptable in the District of Columbia."

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