Shooting, Stabbing Happen Within Minutes In Aberdeen

ABERDEEN, MD — Detectives are investigating a stabbing that happened Tuesday night in the 200 block of Mayberry Drive.

Harford County sheriff's deputies received a call about a fight involving knives around 6:13 p.m. When they arrived, they found a 19-year-old man who had been stabbed in his leg. He was taken by ambulance to a local hospital where he was interviewed by detectives, according to the sheriff's office.

Detectives believe that the victim was involved in a fight with people he knew when the fight happened. The victim is expected to survive his injuries, according to authorities.

Shortly after the Aberdeen stabbing around 6:15 p.m., sheriff's deputies were dispatched to a local hospital for a reported shooting victim. Detectives interviewed the 44-year-old man who said he'd been shot in the 1000 block of Plaza Circle in Joppa when he was shot in his lower body by an unknown man during a brief altercation. He has since been released from the hospital.

Detectives believe the shooting and the stabbing are isolated and unrelated, and continue to investigate.

Anyone with additional information should contact Sergeant DeMarino at 443-903-8535.