18-year-old Clinton resident discovered in car in Forestville

With Megan McKeever

Police are asking witnesses to come forward after a Clinton teen was fatally shot in a car in a busy Forestville mall parking lot Saturday.

“You would think we would have more information from witnesses being that this incident occurred in daylight hours at six in the afternoon,” Officer Henry Tippett, a Prince George’s County Police Department spokesman, said Wednesday.

Police responded to a call from a mall security guard reporting gunfire at around 6 p.m. in the Forest Village Park Mall in the 3300 block of Donnell Drive. A mall security supervisor could not be reached by press time.

Shawn Antonio Perry, 18, was found suffering from a single gunshot wound to the torso in the driver’s seat of a Buick Rivera, which had struck a tree in the parking lot.

Though unconfirmed, police believe Perry was driving when he was shot, said Sgt. Michelle Reedy, a police spokeswoman.

Perry, of the 6000 block of Spell Road, was rushed to Prince George’s Hospital Center in Cheverly, where he was pronounced dead at around 7 p.m.

Police have received information from witnesses, Tippett said, but most people at the scene seemed to notice the “aftermath” of Perry’s car striking a tree.

“I don’t think we had too many reports coming in of people hearing gunshots,” he said. “There had to be witnesses in a busy shopping center.”

He said police are working to find a motive.

“We have had some tips come in, but we don’t have a suspect narrowed down,” he said Wednesday.

Anyone with information regarding the shooting should call the Prince George’s County Police Department’s Homicide Unit at 301-772-4925 or Crime Solvers at 866-411-8477.

Police are offering up to $25,000 for information that leads to an arrest and indictment.

 

Originally published at The Gazette.