Teen rapper ‘Baby K’ gets 25 years behind bars for Maryland school bus attack

Thomas Robertson | trobertson@wtop.com
August 16, 2024, 4:32 PM


Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Aisha Braveboy speaks outside the courthouse following the sentencing of "Baby K." (WTOP/Matt Kaufax)

A 17-year-old boy, who rapped under the name “Baby K,” was sentenced to 25 years in prison Friday after pleading guilty to attempted first-degree murder and weapons charges.

Kaeden “Baby K” Holland was 15 when he tried to kill a student on a Prince George’s County school bus last year. His plea deal called for a 25-year sentence with another 35 years suspended, which is ultimately the sentence he received.

The deal also called for Holland to serve his time at the Patuxent Institution, a maximum-security adult prison that offers therapy and counseling programs for youth offenders. Holland was also sentenced to five years probation once he’s released from Patuxent.

In May 2023, the teenager burst onto a school bus and tried to shoot a student, but the gun malfunctioned, authorities said … “Twenty-five years, that is a significant sentence, it’s top of the guidelines. And it was appropriate in this case because of the planning, the deliberation, the execution of what he wanted, which was to murder a child,” Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Aisha Braveboy said during a news conference Friday after the sentencing.

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Thomas Robertson
Thomas Robertson is an Associate Producer and Web Writer/Editor at WTOP. After graduating in 2019 from James Madison University, Thomas moved away from Virginia for the first time in his life to cover the local government beat for a small daily newspaper in Zanesville, Ohio.
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