WASHINGTON — A man charged in a crime spree that left a Census Bureau guard dead and a police officer wounded had been convicted of manslaughter and recently was arrested in an assault case involving his “visibly afraid” girlfriend, according to court documents obtained Friday by The Associated Press.
Ronald Anderson, 48, was arrested Feb. 17 on a charge of assaulting his girlfriend in the Washington suburb of Prince George's County, according to court records. He was released on the day of his arrest.
The officer responding to a domestic dispute call said that the man's girlfriend, 20, was clearly afraid.
“The victim was shaking, crying and was whispering while speaking because she was afraid of the suspect hearing her,” the officer wrote, according to the documents.
The woman, whose 10-month-old son was home, told police that Anderson hit her several times, knocking her into walls, because he thought she was looking at another man, the records state.
Another court record filed in D.C. Superior Court shows that Anderson pleaded guilty to manslaughter while armed in 1991 in Washington. No other details were available about that case.
Anderson's attorney's phone number rang busy Friday.
The woman referenced in the assault in February is listed as a kidnapping victim in Thursday's incident in a Metropolitan Police Department report released Friday.
She was taken at gunpoint from her home, the report stated.
Shortly after that, a guard at the Census Bureau in Suitland, Md., saw two people fighting in a car that matched the description of the vehicle in the kidnapping, Metropolitan police Chief Cathy Lanier said.
When the guard approached the car, the man shot him and took off, crossing the border back into the nation's capital and firing at police officers who gave chase, Lanier said.
The man fired at them again during the chase before police blocked him and collided with his car, Lanier said. Cornered, the suspect opened fire again, and police shot back.
