U.S.marshals deputies say Azeik Keys is a violent man on the run, and they are asking the public to help find him. The 33-year-old Keys, of the District, was on parole after serving time for using a knife to rape a woman in a stolen vehicle, but he has disappeared and a warrant for his arrest was issued in October. “Keys has a 17-year history of violence. He has served time on multiple occasions for his crimes yet continues to revert back to his violent ways,” said Deputy U.S. Marshal William Straw.
In 2003, Keys was driving a stolen Jeep Cherokee with a woman and her 1-year-old daughter. He stopped the Jeep in the 3100 block of 15th Place SE, and began choking the woman. He told her that he would kill her and her daughter if she did not do what he wanted.
He then tore the woman’s clothes off and raped her, all the while continuing to choke her.
After the assault, the woman promised that she would give the Keys $100 if he would take her to her place. She immediately went inside and reported the rape. Police arrested him the following day after he twice on separate occasions stole bottles of champagne from a liquor store and then went back a third time while D.C. police were taking the report.
He was convicted and sentenced to more than to six years.
Keys has a lengthy criminal history. In 1993, he was charged with assault with to intent to murder in Prince George’s County and sentenced to five years; in 1997, he was charged with first-degree assault and sentenced to four years; in 2002, he was charged with assault of a U.S. postal inspector and sentenced to more than three years.
Keys is described as a black male, 5-foot-10, 145 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. He is a resident of Southeast Washington and is known to hang out around Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
Anyone with information regarding Keys’ whereabouts is urged to call the marshals service at 301-489-1717 or 800-336-0102.
The Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force, run by the U.S. Marshals Service, is composed of 30 federal, state and local agencies from Baltimore to Norfolk. The unit has captured more than 33,000 wanted fugitives since its creation in 2004.
