A man stabbed himself and several other people in Northeast D.C. Thursday afternoon, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
The suspect was under the influence of something at about 3:30 p.m. when he stabbed himself and a woman with whom he was walking along Montello Avenue near Raum Street in D.C.'s Trinidad neighborhood, police said.
“The suspect was in an altered mental state from an unknown substance,” D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith said. “While walking down the street, the individual began stabbing himself, and then he stabbed a female acquaintance who was also with him.”
Then he randomly stabbed other women on the street, including a grandmother getting into a car with her grandchildren, police said.
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“The grandmother and her granddaughters were getting in a car, primarily minding their own business,” Smith said.
Two good Samaritans attempting to intervene also were stabbed.
Four women and two men were taken to hospitals. They are in stable condition.
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Police took the suspect into custody. He was in surgery Thursday evening.
Police said they recovered a bloody knife a few feet away from the suspect.
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