Lansdowne Man Charged in Stabbing of Son
Charles Palmer, 50, is charged in the stabbing of his teenage son in their home Saturday.
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Baltimore County Police have charged a 50-year-old Lansdowne man in the attempted murder of his son, after police found the teen with a stab wound at their home Saturday morning.
Charles V. Palmer, of the 600 block of Washington Avenue, is charged with first-degree attempted murder, first-degree assault, first-degree child abuse and other related charges, according to a police press release. He is being held without bail at the Baltimore County Detention Center.
At 9:30 a.m., Baltimore County Police and Fire officials responded to a reported stabbing at a home in the 600 block of Washington Avenue in Lansdowne. When they arrived, they found a juvenile standing in the front yard with a large stab wound in his neck, according to a press release. The victim is a 14-year-old male, according to Baltimore County Public Safety’s Twitter.
The victim told officers that he and his father, Charles Palmer, were in the attic of the home looking at knives when Palmer stabbed him in the neck. When Palmer dropped the knife, the victim picked it up and ran outside to the front lawn with it, police said.
The victim was transported to the Johns Hopkins Pediatric Intensive Care Unit for a non-life-threatening injury, police said.
Palmer was located at the scene and taken into custody, police said.
Sara
8:58 pm on Sunday, March 3, 2013
How can he be charged with murder if they were "non life threatening injuries"? Confused.
Ted Taylor
8:11 am on Monday, March 4, 2013
me too
brittany krebs
2:43 pm on Monday, March 4, 2013
hes charged with atempted murder. he was trying to kill the kid
bystander
4:59 pm on Monday, March 4, 2013
If you were attacked by someone that had every intent to kill you but you were strong enough and quick enough to turn the tables on your attacker, wouldn't you still want the attacker charged with "attempted murder". After all stabbing someone in the neck sure seems to be an attempt at murdering them. Think deeper man! Don't confuse yourself.
bystander
9:11 am on Monday, March 4, 2013
At the time of my reading the article it states that the father is charged with "attempted murder". A commenter alludes to the fact that the father is charged with "murder". Did the editor correct the story since the comment was submitted, or did the commenter misread the story?
Sanchez
5:48 pm on Monday, March 4, 2013
Parents killed more of their own children than rifles did in 2011 according to the FBI UCR.
323 people were murdered by "rifle".
445 children wee murdered by one or both parents.
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/table-20
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-10
Sara
7:36 pm on Monday, March 4, 2013
The version of the article I am reading says "murder" not "attempted murder". So my initial question was asking if the son passed away or if the article was wrong and meant to read "attempted murder". That is all. No need to jump down my throat.
Jay Schultz
8:49 pm on Wednesday, March 6, 2013
It SAYS "ATTEMPTED" get some glasses and/or get down from your hi and mighty soap box. YOU started it all, deal with it!
Sara
8:07 am on Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Second paragraph still says "charged with first degree murder". The editor needs to change to "attempted murder" to correct the article.
bystander
10:34 am on Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Your right. The article does contradict itself. The Arbutus patch sure has gone downhill since their previous editor, Mr Goldfarb left them. Mr Sears does a great job at writing on political issues, but it seems the Patch bosses have stretched him a bit thin by giving him Mr. Goldfarb's old job also. It looks like the bosses have now stretched Mr. Shapiro a bit thinly also. It's a shame that this has happened, because Patch has such a great format.
Jay Schultz
8:47 pm on Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Fry his ASS!
Jay Schultz
8:55 pm on Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Nothing good ever came out of that neighborhood. Same ol chit! I hope they throw the book at this THUG, maybe they'll hit him in the NECK with it if you catch my meaning.
NO BAIL? You can bet he'd best better get used to having a new husband named BUBBA, cause based on his size, the fact that he is a child abuser, and the fact that he is stone cold friggin NUTS (told cops he did it because demons were after his son, and that they moved a post he placed on the net just to mess with him, the deamons that is) you can bet he is going to become bubba'd boy if you C IM SAYING! Don't look good for him, but after all he could have killed the kid. FRY HIM!
A Robinson
9:18 pm on Thursday, March 7, 2013
bystander... what happened to Mr. Goldfarb? He was a good editor i agree.
Jay...why are you so angry, calm down. He was charged, the case is being handled and he'll get his day in court
bystander
12:52 pm on Friday, March 8, 2013
I heard that he took a job with the Maryland Medical Examiner as some type of public relations position.