A stabbing in Pikesville on Tuesday was related to a domestic incident, with one of the victims identified as a mental health worker and the other as the wife of the suspect, according to the Baltimore County Police Department.
In a news release from the department on Wednesday, police said officers responded to the 8200 block of Arrowhead Road for reports of a stabbing. Upon arrival, the officers found a woman, 32, with multiple stab wounds, and a man, 48, with upper body injuries.
The male victim was identified as a mental health clinician for the State of Maryland, who was responding to a request by the suspect’s wife to assist the suspect, who was experiencing a mental health crisis.
Police said the two adults were stabbed before the barricade was set up.
After the suspect retreated and barricaded himself inside the building, police set up a barricade, which ended around 5:15 p.m. with the suspect was in custody and on their way to a nearby hospital, police said.
The department later confirmed that officers entered the residence and found the suspect, who was suffering from a self-inflicted wound, and transported him and the victims to a nearby hospital.
Police say the suspect was in critical condition when he was transported, and that the victims are both currently in stable condition.
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