A D.C. man will serve almost two decades in prison for allegedly participating in the stalking, robbery and kidnapping of two Fairfax County residents as well as a woman in Maryland.
A U.S. District Court judge in D.C. sentenced Tyree Eugene McCombs, 29, to 228 months, or 19 years, in prison yesterday (Tuesday) after he pleaded guilty last year to robbery and kidnapping charges, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for D.C. announced.
“McCombs and his co-conspirators twice executed plans to surveil, stalk, forcibly detain, bind, assault, and rob women at gunpoint,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a press release. “McCombs was a leader in both schemes, personally stalking the victims, holding them at gunpoint, physically assaulting them, and demanding that they pay their own ransoms.”
According to court documents, McCombs used a tracking device to stalk a hairstylist identified as “M.M.” who lived in an apartment building in the Alexandria part of Fairfax County. On Sept. 2, 2022, he placed the tracking device on a Mercedes S63 AMG sedan belonging to A.C., a male “associate” of the hairstylist.
When M.M. and A.C. traveled to Maryland for a family gathering, McCombs and other men involved in the scheme allegedly drove to the Alexandria apartment building in a stolen Kia, using the tracking device to monitor the pair while they were away.
When M.M. and A.C. returned to the apartment building, the group held them at gunpoint and stole property, including two watches worth approximately $120,000, $63,500 in jewelry and the keys to the Mercedes, per court documents.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office:
Once inside of the apartment, McCombs and his co-conspirators pistol-whipped the victims and ordered them to tell them where their money was hidden. The co-conspirators ransacked the residence but were unable to find any cash. During the crime, a security alarm activated, and the co-conspirators tore the alarm from the wall and fled the apartment. McCombs and his co-conspirators then fled the apartment complex in a stolen white Kia as well as the victim’s Mercedes, which still had the GPS tracking device inside. The co-conspirators drove the Mercedes into Washington, D.C. then abandoned the vehicle in Maryland, where it was found by law enforcement. About a month later, on October 10, 2022, McCombs sold the custom pendant, worth tens of thousands of dollars, to a pawn shop in Maryland for $200.
Prosecutors say McCombs led a similar scheme on Nov. 7, 2022 that targeted a 25-year-old woman from Elkridge, Maryland, who’s also described in court documents as a hairstylist with a prominent social media following.
More from the press release:
As the victim exited her vehicle and began to enter the building, McCombs and his co-conspirator grabbed her and forced her into the back seat of the Camry at gunpoint. The kidnappers pistol-whipped the victim, robbed her, and bound her hands behind her back using a black plastic zip tie. McCombs and his co-conspirator then held the woman captive in the vehicle for nearly three hours, driving to various locations in Maryland and Washington, D.C. Surveillance video footage from a gas station in Forestville, Maryland, captured McCombs and his co-conspirator exiting the Camry with the victim still held inside. As McCombs walked into the gas station to purchase gas, the co-conspirator entered the back seat of the vehicle and sexually assaulted the victim. After leaving the gas station, the kidnappers, who had already taken a significant amount of cash and property from the victim, repeatedly demanded to know “who she could call to save her life, that could get more money,” while threatening to kill her.
The victim, believing she was going to be killed, used her foot to open a rear door of the vehicle, pushed open the door, and, after struggling with McCombs, jumped out of the moving vehicle. As she sprinted down the street, McCombs and the co-conspirator fired at least five gunshots at her, striking her twice in the foot. Within minutes of the shooting, law enforcement identified McCombs based on his GPS data. They located and arrested McCombs, who was still wearing the GPS monitor, several hours later.
McCombs was indicted by a grand jury in D.C. on several charges in November 2022, but he pleaded guilty on Aug. 14, 2024 to just two counts: kidnapping for the Maryland incident and conspiracy to interfere with interstate commerce by robbery for the Fairfax County one.
Another D.C. resident, 27-year-old Robbie Terrell Clark, also pleaded guilty last year to kidnapping for his involvement in the Fairfax County crime and was sentenced to 108 years in prison on Jan. 24.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the case was investigated by FBI Washington Field Office’s Violent Crimes Task Force with the Fairfax County, D.C. and Howard County police departments providing support.
