Eastpoint Mall Homicide: Daughter Charged in Parking Lot Death

Dundalk, MD — The daughter of a woman stabbed to death in the Eastpoint Mall parking lot Saturday has been charged with first-degree murder, according to the Baltimore County Police Department.

Crystal Wagner, 29, of the 400 block of 52nd Street in Dundalk, is being held at the Baltimore County Detention Center without bail.

Related: Homicide at Eastpoint Mall Under Investigation

Police said that Wagner and her mother were leaving the Eastpoint Mall and had been walking in a covered parking area near the J.C. Penney when the daughter attacked her mother, then stabbed her multiple times with a knife.

Wagner got in the car and drove away, according to police, who found her mother—Malia Delores Wagner, 60, of the 400 block of 52nd Street—lying in the parking lot.

Malia Wagner was taken to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, where she was pronounced deceased. Police said authorities were initially unable to identify her.

A motive has not yet been determined.

Pictured, Crystal Wagner. Photo courtesy of the Baltimore County Police Department.