A 56-year-old man is in critical but stable condition after being stabbed on the 3800 block of Pennington Avenue in Curtis Bay, and Baltimore police say a person of interest was already taken into custody in connection with the attack. The stabbing was reported Thursday night, and the victim was rushed to a nearby hospital.
A patrol officer was flagged down about a serious cutting incident, according to WBFF, which reported that an officer was directed to the 56-year-old man suffering from the stab wound. Medics transported him for treatment, and police said he was in critical but stable condition. The outlet reported that the victim was able to provide a description of the suspect before officers took a person of interest into custody; police have not released that person's identity or said whether charges have been filed, and the investigation into the stabbing remains active.
A Neighborhood Watching Its Crime Numbers Closely
In 2023, Curtis Bay residents expressed concern about rising shootings and crime figures in the surrounding Southern District. Baltimore Police told WBAL-TV that violent crime in the district was down 20 percent and property crime down 18 percent over the previous month, and that the district commander said officers had fielded 11 calls about discharging firearms near Grace Court in a 90-day span, with three confirmed as actual gunshots. The same report, from WBAL-TV, noted that police said there had been no gun violence in Curtis Bay itself for more than four months.
Those figures followed an earlier account in which city police told the station that 29 shootings, including two homicides, had occurred in the Southern District since the start of the year, with three of those cases happening in Curtis Bay specifically.
A Prior Fatal Stabbing on the Same Street
Pennington Avenue has seen deadly violence before. Police said Jorge Perez, 28, was found with multiple stab wounds in a May 4 attack and later died at Shock Trauma, according to the same WBAL-TV reporting. Derek Hoey, 32, and Kara Bach, 25, were arrested and charged with first- and second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder in that case, and both were denied bond. That case is separate from Thursday's stabbing, and nothing in the available reporting ties the two incidents together.
Curtis Bay has also dealt with gun violence elsewhere in the neighborhood this year. Police said 40-year-old Kenneth Banks was killed in a shooting on Plum Street on June 11, the station reported. As the investigation into Thursday's stabbing continues, police have not released further details about the person of interest or the circumstances that led to the attack.
