A cell phone. An umbrella. And a baseball cap.
For those meager items, police say,
Shannon Dudley, 22, was stabbed directly in the heart in downtown
Baltimore.
Now, police have made two arrests in the case ? and Dudley?s friends are praying for his speedy recovery.
“I?m pleased the Baltimore Police Department moved quickly and swiftly,” said former City Councilman Kenneth Harris, who said he was a mentor to Dudley for three years. “We have to send a message that this is not going to be tolerated.”
Charles Calloway, 18, and Corey Woodham, 19, are charged with attempted second-degree murder in the stabbing of Dudley, a hair design student at Avara Barber School in Dundalk.
At 9 p.m. May 27, Dudley left the school and headed home, transferring buses in downtown Baltimore, police said. He was walking toward the bus stop on the 100 block of W. Baltimore Street when he was surrounded by several males, who robbed him, police said.
A witness yelled, “What are you doing?” and the robbers ran away, leaving Dudley holding his chest from a stab wound, police said.
Two suspects fled to the nearby subway station, where surveillance cameras recorded them running down the escalator and through the turnstiles, police said.
Detectives checked records from Dudley?s phone, found it was used shortly after the stabbing, and tracked down Calloway and Woodham. The two teens admitted to possessing Dudley?s property but denied assaulting him, charging documents state. Dudley is recovering at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center, Harris said.
