Crime & Safety
Man Stabbed Outside Bel Air McDonald's
The Baltimore Pike fast food stop was open Saturday morning.
UPDATE (9:08 a.m.)—An unidentified man is in "fair condition" at Shock Trauma after he was stabbed during a fight on a parking lot outside early Saturday morning.
Two Aberdeen men are in custody as suspects.
A Chevrolet Trailblazer was seized from the as yet unidentified suspects, but a weapon has not been recovered, Chief Leo Matrangola said.
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Maryland State Police were on the scene when a fight started outside the restaurant at 599 Baltimore Pike around 2:20 a.m. Town police arrived shortly after the stabbing, Matrangola said.
Police do not know what the fight was about. At least one of the suspects may have recently moved to Aberdeen from South Carolina, according to the police chief.
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Rich Gardiner, a spokesman for the Harford County Volunteer Fire and EMS Association, said all three men involved in the incident are in their “early 20s.” The responded to the scene to treat the victim.
The McDonald’s, which has a 24-hour drive-thru, was open at 7 a.m. The lobby was closed as scheduled during the stabbing.
A manager for the store who asked not to be identified claimed he was not aware of the stabbing. He also did not know whether the business closed at any time.
“I just got here,” he said. “The other manager left at about 6 a.m.”
