Thursday, April 25, 2013
Police have arrested a 20-year-old in the stabbing; he is charged with attempted first-degree murder.
Montgomery County police responding to an emergency call at approximately 10 p.m., April 16, thought they were rushing to the scene of a pedestrian who had been struck by a vehicle in the area of Georgia Avenue and Reedie Drive in Wheaton. Instead, they found an 18-year-old man who had been stabbed approximately 16 times, according to an April 25 statement from police. Fire and rescue responders transported him to a local trauma center with life-threatening injuries. He has since been released and is recovering at home, police said. Police arrested Devante Ryan McNeil, 20, whose address was unconfirmed, without incident on April 18 in Silver Spring, after obtaining an arrest warrant the day before. McNeil is charged with attempted first-…
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
The stabbing took place last October near the Wheaton Metro Station.
A Metro bus passenger was convicted of second-degree attempted murder Tuesday, according to an Examiner report. Victor McEachin, 52, of Aspen Hill, stabbed a bus driver at the Wheaton Metro Station after the driver asked him to stop masturbating, Patch reported last fall. [Get daily and breaking news email updates by signing up for free newsletters from Wheaton Patch.] The incident began after midnight on Oct. 11 when the Y7 bus driver left the Silver Spring Metro station. A passenger alerted the bus driver that McEachin was touching himself, according to police officials. When the bus arrived at the Wheaton Metro Station, the bus driver and McEachin got into a heated argument, which left the driver with stab wounds in the stomach and …
Thursday, December 29, 2011
The kidnappings at Wheaton Plaza, a stabbing outside the Wheaton Metro Station, and 40,000 pennies stolen from New Creation Church.
As 2011 draws to a close, we have compiled a list of the biggest crime stories in Wheaton this year: 1. The kidnappings of three elderly men at Wheaton Plaza in late November looms large in recent memory. In the span of five days, the suspect forced each of the three men to drive him around to area ATMs and withdraw cash. Police arrested a man from Landover Nov. 30. 2. A 17-year-old girl was arrested in connection with a stabbing in early December at Northwood High School that left a Montgomery Blair High School student hospitalized with multiple stab wounds. 3. A Metro bus driver was stabbed Oct. 11 outside the Wheaton Metro Station by a passenger. Another passenger had complained that the suspect was touching himself inappropriately, …
ROBERT SCHROEDER
11:25 am on Saturday, April 27, 2013
Why do people fight or do crimes anyways? I mean it does no one any good, think of the woman they fought over? Fighting never is any good, I had a woman who went with a taller man & I had my feelings hurt, but I just walked away because it was her choice [+ he was taller then me] more ›