Botched robbery leads to standoff at Pr. George’s Co. shopping center

WASHINGTON — Annapolis Road in Prince George’s County has reopened to traffic hours after it was closed while police believed a would-be robber had barricaded himself inside a check cashing business.

Police entered the business after several hours and found no one inside. A store employee escaped the business and asked a passer-by to call 911 after the gunman entered the store and assaulted the employee shortly after 9 a.m. Monday.

Police shut down a stretch of Annapolis Road in both directions near the Capital Plaza shopping center. The road reopened about 2 p.m.

John Domen

John started working at WTOP in 2016 after having grown up in Maryland listening to the station as a child. While he got his on-air start at small stations in Pennsylvania and Delaware, he's spent most of his career in the D.C. area, having been heard on several local stations before coming to WTOP.

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