An 18-year-old has been arrested after he was apprehended while driving the missing Jeep Cherokee of slain American University professor Sue Ann Marcum.
Marcum was found dead in her Bethesda home Monday, and Montgomery County police are investigating her death as a homicide.
A license plate reader detected Deandrew Hamlin, 18, of Northwest D.C., driving Marcum’s vehicle on the 2800 block of Benning Road NE just after midnight, said Officer Istmania Bonilla, a Metropolitan Police Department spokesman. Police tried to stop the vehicle, and Hamlin fled. Hamlin was arrested after he crashed the Jeep into a crosswalk signal pole near New Jersey Avenue and M Street NW, Bonilla said.
He has been charged with unauthorized use of a vehicle and felony fleeing. Hamlin was taken to an area hospital after complaining of back and neck pain.
Police are investigating whether he is linked to Marcum’s death.
Montgomery County police say there were signs of forced entry and a struggle at Marcum’s home on the 6200 block of Massachusetts Avenue NW. Her vehicle was missing from the residence.
