Opinion ID: 2373496
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Andre Williams

Text: Late in the afternoon of the same day, Andre Williams was driving on Davy Street near the Capitol Heights bus station in Maryland when he met appellant doubled over in the street waving for help. When Williams stopped his car and lowered the window, appellant put a silver gun to his head and made him open the door. Williams complied and appellant and Carter jumped in. Appellant handed the gun to Carter and took Williams' designer-type EK sunglasses. Carter took Williams' wallet and, upon finding an ATM card in it, ordered him to drive to two 7-Eleven stores and a Sovran Bank in an effort to match the card with a machine it would operate. Failing in these attempts, the pair ordered Williams to drive to his own bank where, after yet another failed encounter with an automatic teller machine, they directed him to the drive-up window. When they discovered he had only seventeen dollars in his checking account, they ordered him to follow the car of a bank customer who had just made a withdrawal. He did so but they changed their mind and made him drive to another bank in Maryland, where they observed a customer, Lona Gray, withdrawing funds at a drive-up window. They followed her to her home in Maryland and attempted to rob her at gunpoint as she left her car. Gray resisted by sitting on her purse, and the pair gave up the attempt when Gray's grandchild, who was in the car, began to cry. [3] Appellant and Carter then ordered Williams to drive them back to the District, ending up at a 7-Eleven store near Benning Road and East Capitol Street. [4] Seizing an opportunity, Williams escaped to a nearby restaurant, and appellant and Carter drove off in his car. Williams identified appellant as one of the men who kidnapped and robbed him, and the gun seized from Carter on November 4 as the weapon with which the pair threatened him on November 3. The jury found appellant guilty of kidnapping Williams and of robbing him of his car, both while armed.