Crime & Safety

UPDATE: Suspect Charged in Stabbing

Police have identified a man who stabbed by his roommate in Owings Mills Thursday afternoon.

An Owings Mills man is charged with attempted murder and assault after he stabbed his roommate Thursday afternoon.

Luis Alonso Andrade-Medrano, 34, of the 9000 block Reisterstown Road, is charged with attempted first-degree murder and first- and second-degree assault. He is being held without bail at the Baltimore County Detention Center, according to a Baltimore County Police press release.

Orlando Martinez, 43, was flown to R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma after the stabbing. He is expected to live, police said.

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Martinez was stabbed multiple times by Andrade-Medrano, his roommate, after an argument inside their Owings Mills home around 3:30 p.m. escalated into a fight that moved outside the house, police said.

At 3:59 p.m., police were called to Elite Lock and Key at 9925 Reisterstown Road, where Martinez ran after the stabbing. He was flown to Shock Trauma with life-threatening injuries, police said.

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