Dundalk, MD: Man Stabbed to Death on Dunmurry Road; Fiancée's Brother in Custody

Shortly after midnight Friday, Baltimore County Police were dispatched to the 2900 block of Dunmurry Road, a garden-style apartment complex, as a man repeatedly stabbed his sister’s fiancé in the passenger seat of a white van, according to police and an eyewitness.

The stabbing victim was taken to Bayview Medical Center, where he was pronounced at approximately 8 a.m. Saturday, according to Baltimore County Police Sgt. Benjamin Yohe. The brother of victim’s fiancé was arrested at the scene and remains in custody. Baltimore County Police have not yet released the name of the victim, or the suspect, expected to be charged today.

An argument had begun inside the apartment home of the fiancée's mother, where she had gone to pick up her children late Friday night. The argument continued outside onto the sidewalk and into a white van parked on the street. “I was watching T.V. and heard shouting and that’s why I looked outside to see what was going on,” said a neighbor, a woman named Kim, who preferred her last name not be used. She described watching, what she thought was a man punching another man seated in a white van outside her neighbor’s home. “There was blood everywhere,” she said, describing the attacker as a black male in a orange, hooded sweatshirt, in his late 20s or early 30s. “I didn’t know he was stabbing him, I thought he was punching him. “It all happened in the van,” she said, adding that victim was eventually pulled from the vehicle and placed on the sidewalk. “It all took probably a couple of seconds, but it seemed like forever. One of the children was standing there watching the whole time. It was awful.” The neighbor added that she heard the brother saying to his sister, “Stop protecting him, he swung on you.”

The fiancé of the man killed declined to identify herself, her brother or the deceased outside her home Saturday afternoon as she learned from a television reporter than her fiancée had died. She did not appear injured in any way. Later, when police arrived and picked up the attacker as he walked down the sidewalk, the witness, Kim, said she heard him tell police, “Nobody’s gonna hurt my family.”

The residential garden-style apartment complex sits off Dunman Way, and near Dundalk Middle School and Heritage Park. Ronald Delp, who lives in the same apartment building where the argument began, said he and his neighbors were interviewed by police until early Saturday morning. “All I heard was yelling and screaming, and then I heard someone yell, ‘He’s not breathing,’” Delp said, adding that he did not know of any previous trouble at the home. Harold O’Brien has lived on Dunmurry Road across the street from where the stabbing took place for five years. He said nothing like this has happened previously in the neighborhood that he’s aware of. “In five years, I never heard of any violence on this street,” O’Brien said.