SUSPECT WHO ATTACKED POLICE WARRANT TEAM IN PRINCE GEORGE'S CO. CHARGED

(BALTIMORE, MD) – Criminal charges were served on a suspect who remains hospitalized after he charged a police warrant team with a knife last month in Prince George’s County and was wounded by a state trooper.

Michael W. King, 31, of the 9200-block of Goldenrod Lane, Upper Marlboro, Md., was charged on a warrant with first degree assault, second degree assault, and assault with a dangerous or deadly weapon. The warrant was served on King last week by members of the Prince George’s County Sheriff’s Office at the University of Maryland Hospital, where he remains a patient. He was ordered held without bond. He is under guard by Division of Correction officers at the hospital.

On the morning of November 30, 2011, members of the United States Marshals Service Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force went to King’s residence to serve a warrant on him for drug distribution. Police developed evidence that King was in the home, but he would not answer the door.

Continuing to identify themselves as police officers, the warrant team entered the home and was initiating a search for King when he appeared from behind a wall and ran at team members with an upraised knife. He was shot and wounded by a Maryland state trooper from the Criminal Investigation Division who is assigned to the warrant/fugitive team.

Based on the preliminary investigation by members of the Maryland State Police Homicide Unit and Internal Affairs Unit, the trooper involved has returned to duty. The investigations are continuing.