FREDERICK, MD – A Baltimore man convicted of murdering a Pikesville resident during a violent abduction in Walkersville has been sentenced to 85 years in the Maryland Division of Corrections.
In Frederick County Circuit Court, Judge Scott Rolle ordered 20-year-old Keon Naki Wilson-Hawkins to serve life, suspending all but 65 years for first-degree murder, and an additional 20 years consecutive for kidnapping. He also received a concurrent 10-year term for carjacking. The sentence follows his July 9 conviction by a Frederick County jury on all counts, including conspiracy to commit first-degree murder.
The case began on January 10, 2024, when Frederick County Sheriff’s deputies found 66-year-old Brice Wendell Boots dead inside his 2003 Toyota Sequoia in a field along Crum Road. The vehicle, located roughly 650 feet off the roadway, was covered in mud and blood. Investigators later determined Boots had been abducted from his Pikesville home hours earlier…