Police: Multiple people stabbed by man in ‘altered mental state from an unknown substance’ in Northeast DC
- On April 3, 2025, a man stabbed multiple people in Northeast D.C. Near Montello Avenue and Meigs Place around 3:22 p.m.
- According to police, the man was in an altered mental state possibly caused by an unknown substance.
- The man initially stabbed himself and a female acquaintance before attacking other people nearby, including two Good Samaritans.
- Chief Smith noted a grandmother and her two granddaughters were stabbed while "getting into a car"; a bloody knife was found nearby.
- Police took the suspect into custody; six victims, four women and two men, went to hospitals but are expected to survive.
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Several people who were stabbed in Washington: at least six injured
At least six people were injured as a result of stabbing on Thursday afternoon in the American city of Washington. The suspect who, according to the police, was "in a altered psychological state" and under the influence of an unknown "drug substance" was placed in police custody. The condition of the wounded is stable. The perpetrator also stabbed himself. ...
Drugged suspect in ‘altered mental state’ stabs six, along with himself, during DC rampage: police
At least six victims were left injured in the nation's capital on Thursday after an intoxicated suspect began randomly stabbing people on the street, including himself.
Multiple people stabbed in D.C. by man in ‘altered mental state’
Multiple people were stabbed on Thursday by a man in an “altered mental state,” according to police in Washington, D.C. The mass stabbing began at around 3:22 p.m. in the northeast part of the city, near the U.S. National Arboretum and Gallaudet University. Police said the suspect began stabbing himself and a female acquaintance as they were walking down the street, before he turned the weapon on others nearby. Six victims, four women and two me…


Multiple people stabbed in Northeast DC, one person in custody
A person who officials said might have been in an “altered mental state” harmed himself with a knife before turning it on six other people in a Northeast D.C. neighborhood Thursday afternoon, according to D.C. Police. Portions of Montello Avenue and Simms Place NE, in D.C.’s Trinidad neighborhood, were closed off after police officers found four women and two men injured, with the suspect found lying on the ground on the 1700 block of Montello A…
Drugged suspect in 'altered mental state' stabs six, along with himself, during DC rampage: police
At least six victims were left injured in the nation's capital on Thursday after an intoxicated suspect began randomly stabbing people on the street, including himself.The incident was reported at around 3:22 p.m. in Washington D.C.'s Trinidad neighborhood on Thursday afternoon. Metropolitan Police Department officers arrived at the scene and found "numerous people suffering from stab wounds."Pamela Smith, the chief of the Metropolitan Police De…
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