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.
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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.
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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.