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Two Stabbed at Bethesda Department Store
Updated: Thursday, May. 26, 2005 - 4:31 PM

WTOP's Veronica Robinson was on the scene just after the stabbings Wednesday night.

BETHESDA, Md. - Police are calling the stabbings of two women at an upscale department store a "random act."

Antoinette Starks, 48, of Greenbelt, Md., is expected to make her first court appearance Thursday afternoon.

She is charged in connection with the stabbings at the Nordstrom in the Westfield Shopping Center, formerly the Montgomery Mall.

Police say she is charged with three counts of attempted second-degree murder, three counts of reckless endangerment, three counts of first-degree assault, three counts of second-degree assault, two counts of attempt to carry a concealed deadly weapon with intent to injure, two counts of carrying a concealed deadly weapon with intent to injure.

She is being held at the Montgomery County Detention Center on $1 million bond.

Montgomery County Police say the stabbings happened shortly before 7 p.m. Wednesday.

Police recovered the weapons used in the attack. They recovered two large butcher knives that were taped together at the handle, as well as two other knives.

One victim, a 24-year-old Bethesda woman, remains hospitalized in fair condition. She was stabbed in the abdomen and upper back and had some defensive wounds, police tell WTOP.

The first victim was stabbed while in the customer service department on the third floor during an argument. A 48-year-old Potomac woman is in stable condition. She was stabbed while going down the escalator. Police say a 21-year-old from Rockville, who was chased by the suspect, escaped without injury. That person was treated and released from a local hospital after an asthma-related attack brought on by the incident.

The suspect was arrested in the shoe department.

"Everybody just ran all different directions -- screaming," says one customer who was in the department at the time.

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