Oxon Hill Suspect Accused Of Killing Man, Shooting Child In Annapolis

ANNAPOLIS, MD — Police identified the Oxon Hill suspect accused of killing a man and shooting a child at an Annapolis school bus stop earlier this week.

Officers said they obtained an arrest warrant for Roscoe Jerome Jones, 31, charging him with murder in the killing of Annapolis man John Simms Jr., 36. Authorities said the child who was shot went to Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore and is expected to survive.

The Annapolis Police Department is working with the U.S. Marshals Service to arrest the suspect.

"It is unacceptable that we have an 11-year-old that is at the hospital instead of being in school today to learn," Anne Arundel County Public Schools Superintendent Mark Bedell said at a Wednesday press briefing. "There are fifth-graders ... in this school that know this young kid that are damaged today."

Officers said the shooting happened Wednesday around 7:30 a.m. in the 100 block of Clay Street. That was before school while about a dozen students were waiting for the bus, Bedell said.

"When does it end? When does it end? I'm tired of doing these press conferences with people who have no regard for others that you are that vicious enough to in broad daylight gun somebody down while we have students at multiple bus stops. And at some point, the community must rise and say 'Enough is Enough,'" Bedell said.

Clay Street has seen a heavy police presence in recent days after an unrelated enforcement operation.

Annapolis Mayor Gavin Buckley said they "got three people off the street" last week, pointing to a gunfire arrest that followed a vehicle crash.

Still, this week's gunfire erupted during the morning hours, which Annapolis Police Chief Ed Jackson called their "Achilles heel."

"Who can expect that this kind of violence is going to happen at 7 or 8 o'clock in the morning? How are we supposed to police things like that?" Buckley asked rhetorically. "It is amazing to me that this can happen in a city of 40,000, but that's the reality of what we are living with in a country where there is so much access to guns."

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This map shows the area where authorities said the shooting happened.