Shawn Addison
A man in police custody for being in possession of a stolen car managed to get out of handcuffs and escape from a police station Friday morning.
Prince George’s County police officers pursued a car matching the description of a car used in an armed robbery in the Oxon Hill, Maryland, area about 11:20 a.m. Friday, police said. The car also had been stolen in an armed carjacking in Virginia in February.
The driver, 19-year-old Shawn Michael Addison of Southeast D.C., bailed out of the car but was caught by police in Fairmount Heights, police said. Police also retrieved a gun Addison had hidden.
Officers put Addison in an interview room and handcuffed his right hand to a wall, police said, but he managed to get his hand out of the cuffs and leave the building.
He stole an SUV left running in front of a home nearby, police said.
Officers chased him but lost him on Southern Avenue, police said.
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The SUV was recovered in Southeast D.C.
Addison faces several charges, including armed robbery, possession of a handgun, escape and stolen vehicle.
