74-Year-Old Woman Held At Knifepoint In Edgewater Home Invasion

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EDGEWATER, Md. (WJZ) — There’s an progressive hunt successful Anne Arundel County for a antheral who broke into an aged woman’s location this morning, assaulting her with a knife.

A 74-year-old pistillate was held astatine knifepoint by a antheral who entered her Edgewater location aboriginal Friday, Anne Arundel County constabulary said.

Officers responded astatine 12:25 a.m. to the 300 artifact of Likes Road, wherever they met the victim. The pistillate told constabulary an chartless antheral with a weapon entered her location and confronted her successful her bedroom.

“Someone comes into her chamber this is simply a antheral equipped with a weapon they commencement to conflict with each other,” constabulary spokesperson Marc Limansky said.

The pistillate told constabulary that successful the struggle, she sustained a tiny puncture connected her precocious torso. When she was capable to get distant and telephone 911, the antheral fled, constabulary said.

The pistillate was transported to an country infirmary with what constabulary said was a nonlife-threatening wound.

Limansky said constabulary instantly established a perimeter, spoke with neighbors, and conducted a chopper and canine hunt to unafraid the area, but they could not find the attacker.

The intruder was described arsenic a 5 foot, 8 inch gangly antheral of an chartless contention with a muscular build.

Police privation residents to beryllium alert and instrumentality due precautions similar locking their doors to support themselves harmless – but residents successful this vicinity accidental this is 1 of the safest places they cognize and it’s hard for them to ideate thing similar this happening here.

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Anyone with accusation is urged to telephone Anne Arundel County police.