Suspected Attacker of 87-Year-Old in Custody: Police

BALTIMORE COUNTY, MD — A Rosedale man has been charged in the attack on an 87-year-old Cockeysville resident that happened in December, the Baltimore County Police Department reported this week.

Walter Ellwood Feldheim IV, 32, of the unit block of Cliffwood Road, has been charged with first-degree burglary, robbery, first and second-degree assault, using another person’s credit card and theft less than $100.

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Authorities say Feldheim went to the Cockeysville home of an 87-year-old man at approximately 7 a.m. on Dec. 14, and said there was something wrong with his well and it needed to be checked.

When the resident went to close the door, Feldheim pulled him to the ground, got on his back and tried to put him in a chokehold, police said.

The victim bit the suspect and the victim’s wife punched Feldheim, police said; then the man ran away.

Within days of authorities releasing his picture, police announced the suspect had been charged.

Fedlheim is being held at the Baltimore County Detention Center on $500,000 bail.

Photo Credit: Baltimore County Police Department.