{"id":334307,"date":"2026-05-27T11:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T11:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/334307\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T11:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T11:43:08","slug":"oakland-county-prosecutor-charges-ann-arbor-man-in-orion-twp-carjacking-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/334307\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland County prosecutor charges Ann Arbor man in Orion Twp. carjacking, shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mauriel Dashawn Hearn<\/p>\n

PONTIAC \u2014 An Ann Arbor man accused of shooting and wounding a woman during a carjacking in Orion Township on May 19 is now facing multiple charges, including assault with intent to murder, which carries a sentence of up to life in prison.<\/p>\n

Oakland County Prosecutor Kar\u00aden D. McDonald charged Mauriel Dashawn Hearn, 25, with multiple charges stemming from a carjacking and shooting at the Baldwin Commons shopping center on Baldwin Road north of Brown Road.<\/p>\n

During a press conference on May 20, Sheriff Michael Bouchard said Hearn was on probation for a previous offense, and that he should have been in jail, not loose on the streets.<\/p>\n

Hearn was outside of Panera Bread in the Baldwin Commons when the woman, described as in her 40s, and her son exited the Old Navy store and made their way to their vehicle, Bouchard said. That\u2019s when Hearn reportedly ran to confront the woman.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe basically was a hunter waiting for prey to walk by,\u201d Bouchard said. \u201cYou\u2019ve got a situation where it ap\u00adpears a woman and her young son, child, were targeted for this very violent crime simply because they looked like easy victims, we\u2019re guessing. This indi\u00advidual sat outside of the shopping mall watching and waiting and as soon as she got to the parking lot he ran, literally ran, around a car and then confronted her and her young child and shot her to take her car.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hearn allegedly demanded the woman\u2019s car keys, then shot the woman in the hip dangerously close to a major artery, took her purse and fled the scene in her car, according to authorities.<\/p>\n

The woman was transported to a lo\u00adcal hospital, said Bouchard, who was at the scene and at the hospital.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the first words out of one of the nurse\u2019s was \u2018She\u2019s lost a lot of blood.\u2019 We\u2019re lucky she\u2019s alive. She\u2019s stable but there\u2019s still a very long road medi\u00adcally to figure out what exactly that will mean,\u201d Bouchard said.<\/p>\n

The woman\u2019s son was not injured in the incident.<\/p>\n

Charges<\/p>\n

\u201cThe victims, a mother and her young child, should never have been placed in this dangerous situation be\u00adcause I believe this defendant should be behind bars for previous crimes,\u201d said McDonald. \u201cMy priority is al\u00adways public safety. As prosecutors, we have a responsibility to protect the public from violent individuals like the defendant in this case. If we lose sight of that, bad things can happen to good people. I look forward to work\u00ading with law enforcement to hold this defendant accountable and protect our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hearn is charged with carjacking and assault with intent to murder, both pun\u00adishable by up to life in prison; fleeing a police officer, punishable by five years in prison and\/or $5,000 fine; resisting a police officer, punishable by two years in prison and\/or a $2,000 fine; carrying a concealed weapon, punishable by five years in prison and\/or a $2,500 fine; and three counts of felony firearm punish\u00adable by two years in prison consecutive with any other sentence.<\/p>\n

He was arraigned Friday morning in 52-3 District Court.<\/p>\n

Investigating the incident<\/p>\n

As soon as the call came in at ap\u00adproximately 5:43 p.m., Bouchard said law enforcement rushed to the area en masse and set up a perimeter and began searching for the stolen vehicle. He directed all resources to go toward finding the suspect, and a license plate reader indicated that the stolen vehicle was heading northbound.<\/p>\n

Using FLOCK and information from OnStar, law enforcement located the vehicle and attempted a traffic stop in Groveland Township, about 17 miles away from where the shooting oc\u00adcurred. The suspect allegedly fled, at times reaching speeds over 100 miles per hour, and then hit a guardrail.<\/p>\n

The suspect jumped out of the ve\u00adhicle and was apprehended on foot by an undercover Oakland County Sher\u00adiff\u2019s Office Auto Theft Unit detective in plain clothes and a plain vehicle, Bouchard said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was so uncooperative he wouldn\u2019t even tell us his name and that he\u2019s on probation,\u201d Bouchard said.<\/p>\n

Authorities did recover the handgun and extra ammunition from the suspect, and the discharged bullet from the vic\u00adtim. Bouchard said they would conduct tests to tie the bullet to the handgun.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat will all be part of our forensic<\/p>\n

Bouchard said. \u201cWe\u2019re also going to test that weapon to see if it\u2019s involved in anything else. Intuitively, I don\u2019t think this person is a one and done\u2026there may be other crimes that he\u2019s a participant in. Or maybe that gun has. So, we\u2019re going to look into that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Suspect\u2019s criminal past<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we delved deeper into this we found that he was on probation,\u201d Bouchard said.<\/p>\n

The suspect is on probation in Washt\u00adenaw County for another incident that happened in December 2024 for un\u00adlawful imprisonment and assaulting a young woman, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe victim was a young woman and she was duct taped and hogtied to a bed by this person and briefly suffocated and threatened with sexual assault,\u201d Bouchard said. \u201cThe police agency requested assault with intent to murder punishable by up to life (in prison). And unlawful imprisonment, which is punishable by up to 10 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bouchard said instead the prosecutor in the case charged the suspect with intent to do great bodily harm.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s still a felony; I believe a 10-year felony. He gets two years\u2019 probation. He\u2019s currently on probation for hogtying a woman, duct taping her and suffocating her with a plastic bag over her head and he\u2019s out on the street,\u201d Bouchard said, adding he\u2019s seen situations where there are people in the country and state who are out of prison and, in his opinion, should not be out on the streets.<\/p>\n

He had harsh words for prosecutors who do not hold criminals accountable.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I think we\u2019ve got another tragic example of that,\u201d Bouchard said. \u201cWhich brings me to the conclusion that some of these prosecutors just have to do their damn job. You\u2019ve got an individual that\u2019s on the street for probation, no prison time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s frustrating. It makes me mad that we have a victim (in Orion Town\u00adship) that didn\u2019t have to be a victim,\u201d Bouchard said. \u201cThis person (Hearn) should have been behind bars, in my opinion, based on the charges he even pled to, and he\u2019s on probation when he did this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bouchard cautions citizens to be aware when out in public<\/p>\n

If people are out in public Bouchard said they should always be aware of their surroundings.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe encourage always situational awareness, to be aware of what\u2019s around you, to notice things. If some\u00adthing feels off, listen to that little voice we all have and maybe go back in the store, or maybe call police. If it\u2019s us, call us. If it\u2019s another agency call your local police and say I\u2019m feeling uneasy and here\u2019s why: there\u2019s a suspicious person,\u201d Bouchard said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf something like that happens, it\u2019s a \u2018See something, Say something\u2019 situ\u00adation. We\u2019d rather check out a hundred nothings than miss one real deal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mauriel Dashawn Hearn PONTIAC \u2014 An Ann Arbor man accused of shooting and wounding a woman during a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-334307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}