Police: 20-year-old man facing multiple charges after stabbing parents in Owings Mills
By Barry Simms, Blair Young
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Baltimore County (WBAL) — Details have emerged from the double-stabbing in Owings Mills as a 20-year-old man is facing multiple charges for allegedly stabbing his parents.
According to charging documents, Jaden Dawkins, 20, initially called 911 on Tuesday morning around 5 a.m. and claimed an unknown person was walking around the house with a weapon. Officers responded to the home in the 12000 block of Greenspring Avenue and found no evidence of the claims and cleared the call for service.
Police said a short time later, around 7 a.m., another call was placed to 911 by Dawkins when he said that he had stabbed his parents. Due to the nature of the call, multiple officers responded to the location. Officers knocked on the door and Dawkins answered it with a towel on his hand.
Police asked him if anyone else was in the house and Dawkins responded “My mother and father” and told them “they are in the room.” When an officer asked him what happened to them Dawkins said “I stabbed them, y’all got a band-aid or anything?”
Officers immediately placed Dawkins under arrest and placed him in a patrol car, while officers searched the house for the victims. They found them hiding in a bedroom closet, suffering from multiple life-threatening lacerations.
Both were taken to Shock Trauma and an update has not been provided on their condition. The victims are the mother and step-father of Dawkins but have not been identified.
According to police, while being interviewed Dawkins made a statement that he had a knife and stabbed his mother and step-father because someone was trying to break into the house, and he was telling them but they were in on it.
Police would interview the victims at the hospital who said that Dawkins entered their bedroom and told them that people were outside the house with weapons. He then would return a few hours later and attacked them.
Dawkins is facing multiple charges including attempted murder and first and second-degree assault.
Original story below:
Baltimore County police have identified the suspect in the double-stabbing in Owings Mills on Wednesday.
According to police, they have arrested 20-year-old Jaden Dawkins in connection with the stabbing of a 43-year-old man and a 48-year-old woman. Dawkins is being held without bail at the Baltimore County Detention Center.
County police said officers were called around 6:55 a.m. to a house in the 12300 block of Greenspring Avenue.
Police said investigators believe the incident to be isolated and a person of interest has been detained.
The two people injured were taken to hospitals, but their conditions were not immediately released.
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