Crime & Safety

2 Injured In Stabbing, Suspect Captured By K-9

A Woodbridge man has been arrested for attacking two people with a knife Sunday evening.

WOODBRIDGE, VA — One man has been arrested after he hurt two people with a knife late Sunday evening.

Police say just before 8:30 p.m. they were called to reports of a stabbing in the 12700 block of Cara Drive. When they arrived, they found a 57-old-man with several cuts to his head.

The victim told police he had just been involved in an argument with a man he had just met, identified later by police as 39-year-old Jie Lin of Woodbridge. The victim said he and Lin had argued until Lin went to the kitchen, grabbed a knife and stabbed the victim in the head. A third person then tried to separate the two men, but got cut as well while trying to pull them apart. After the stabbing, Lin fled the scene.

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The 57-year-old was taken to the hospital to be treated for non-life threatening injuries. The second victim was not seriously hurt.

After treating the two, officers began to search the area for the suspect. Eventually they called in a police K-9 unit which managed to quickly track Lin down, and he was arrested.

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He has been charged with aggravated malicious wounding and malicious wounding, and is being held without bail.

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