Kedir sentenced to 60 months in prison for carjackings

Genede Ahmed Kedir was sentenced to 60 months in prison on June 30 on three counts of first-degree robbery for his involvement in Seattle carjackings last September, according to court documents. He was also linked to attempted carjackings in Redmond.

He faced a sentence range of 51 to 68 months in prison, according to the King County Prosecutor’s Office, and was sentenced before judge Jeffrey Ramsdell at the King County Courthouse in Seattle.

He pleaded guilty to all counts on June 14, according to the prosecutor’s office. Kedir originally pleaded not guilty to charges of two counts of first-degree robbery.

The 27-year-old was linked to three of the four attempted carjackings in Redmond on Sept. 19, 2016, according to court documents, and held women at gunpoint in five of the six incidents.

A Redmond police patrol officer recovered latent fingerprints from the exterior of the black Honda Civic that had been carjacked in Seattle on Sept. 17 and was seen fleeing the Redmond incidents, documents state. The suspect crashed the Civic in Redmond and he fled the area.

The fingerprints helped identify the victim following a thorough investigation with the Redmond Police Department (RPD) and the Seattle Police Department (SPD), according to the RPD.