Police arrest suspect in killing of nursing student
[UPDATE, 1 P.M.: Court records show Blackwell was stabbed 32 times, and Abdullah admitted to detectives that the stabbing occurred after an argument over him taking video games from her home escalated. Police tracked down a stolen XBox 360 system and games to a pawn shop, and located a Nintendo Wii from the Blackwell home inside Abdullah's residence, records show.]
Baltimore police have charged a 20-year-old acquaintance with last month’s stabbing death of a Coppin State University nursing student who was stabbed during an argument inside her home in North Baltimore’s Remington neighborhood.
Syron Abdullah, who turned 20 on Tuesday, was charged with first-degree murder and was awaiting a bail hearing in District Court. Police released few details this morning, but said in a statement that he had been arguing with the victim, Jhoma Blackwell, 18.
Police had confirmed on Wednesday that homicide detectives were detaining a “person of interest” in the March 29 killing. The president of the Remington Neighborhood Association had spoken with a homicide detective about the case.
Authorities had said they did not believe the killing was random. In a statement, police described the suspect only as an acquaintance. Det. Jeremy Silbert, a department spokesman, said this morning that the supsect was not the victim’s girlfriend. He would only say that the two knew each other.
Also, relatives of the victim, who was killed in her home in the 2600 block of Huntingdon Ave., posted a video you YouTube. A woman who identified herself as Blackwell’s older sister addressed whoever committed the stabbing:
“You may be pondering if you are going to get away with this,” she says on the video. “You may be even trying to rationalize in your head that she deserved this for whatever reason and you may even elude the authorities, but let me tell you something, you can’t elude God.”Categories: Breaking news, North Baltimore
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I prayed that the Lord would give my family justice AND HE DID. I prayed that this sociopath would be apprehended and he was. I prayed for a confession and he gave it! Hallelujah. I know now more than ever that the Lord I serve (Jesus THE Christ) is the one true and living God and no one can take that from me! THANK YOU LORD. I will blessed the Lord at all times and his praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make her boast in the Lord the humble shall here of it and be glad. Ooooh maganify the Lord with me and let us exalt his name together!!!
Posted by: ASanctifiedChild | April 14, 2011 10:49 AM
Be Glorified God! Thank you for bringing this person to justice! You have answered the prayers of the righteous!
Posted by: Tamara | April 16, 2011 1:04 PM