Murder trial begins for man who allegedly stabbed stepdaughter

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A Baltimore County man is on trial this week, accused of stabbing his teenage stepdaughter to death in her bedroom and setting their Essex house on fire with his infant daughter in another room in 2005.

In opening statements, prosecutors said Carl Evans, 36, was last seen running down an alley and toward a wooded area near his burning home in the 900 block of Foxridge Lane, just as fire trucks arrived. He left behind a laptop computer bag and a Jansport knapsack on the front lawn, containing a pair of knives with 13-year-old Breaunna Floyd?s blood, prosecutor Michael Fuller said.

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