Teen Charged in Aberdeen Apartment Stabbing

ABERDEEN, MD — A 19-year-old faces assault charges after his girlfriend was stabbed in the arm Saturday morning in Aberdeen, police said.

Antony Jabez Smith, of the 300 block of Roosevelt Court in Havre de Grace, was charged with first and second-degree assault as well as reckless endangerment, court records show.

Authorities said they took Smith into custody after he tried to escape from an apartment window in the 300 block of Stevens Circle in Aberdeen.

At 9 a.m. on Saturday, officers responded to the apartment for a domestic dispute and heard an "intense verbal altercation in progress," the Aberdeen Police Department said in a statement.

When a woman answered the door, she was holding a towel bloody from a stab wound to her arm, according to police. She was treated by the Aberdeen Fire Department and taken to a local emergency room, authorities reported.

Officers went to the bedroom where they thought Smith would be, but he would not come out. Another officer saw him running after leaving through a window, police said. Authorities quickly arrested him.

Smith has a preliminary hearing regarding the charges on Dec. 14 in Harford County District Court.

Photo courtesy of the Aberdeen Police Department.