Former Bowie Police sergeant sentenced to 3 years of home detention for attempted murder

A former Bowie Police sergeant who was convicted of attempted murder is set to serve three years of home detention, the county’s state’s attorney’s office announced Friday.

Robert Warrington, 37, was investigating a stopped vehicle in September 2024 when he fired his gun at a man on the shoulder of Collington Road and Route 50.

Body-camera footage showed the man walking toward the stopped vehicle as Warrington asked if he was helping a woman in the vehicle.

“Nah, she’s taking me to the hospital,” the man replied. Seconds later, Warrington fired his gun at the man but missed. The bullet struck a passing vehicle. No one was injured.

Warrington said he thought the man had a gun.

“What did I do?” the man asked him as he lay on the ground with his hands above his head. “I don’t have a gun.”

“Why did you do that?” the woman who was in the vehicle yelled at Warrington. She said the man had gotten out of the car to pick up his hat that had blown away.

“I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry,” Warrington said as he called for an ambulance.

The man Warrington shot at was never charged with a crime and was never under arrest, prosecutors said.

Following a bench trial in May, a judge convicted Warrington of attempted second-degree murder, first-degree assault, reckless endangerment and misconduct in office.

He was sentenced Friday to 30 years in prison, with all but 18 months of home detention suspended, and five years of supervised probation, according to a news release. He will serve another 18 months of home detention during his probation.

Prosecutors had sought a sentence of five years in prison, according to the release.

Warrington was fired from the Bowie Police Department following his conviction, according to a city news release.

“The defendant’s actions placed innocent people in danger and violated the trust placed in him as a police officer,” Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Tara Jackson said in the news release. “Our continued pursuit of justice in this case and in others reinforces our belief that no one is above the law.”