A Baltimore Ravens linebacker was released from an area hospital Monday after he was stabbed during the weekend outside a Baltimore County bowling alley, officials said.
Roderick Green, who came to the Ravens from Central Missouri State in the 2004 NFL draft, was leaving a Randallstown-area bowling alley with a group of friends early Sunday morning when he was stabbed in the stomach by a man he had bumped into, police said.
Green bolted from the parking lot in the 4100 block of Deer Park Road and outran the suspect, who initially chased after the football player, a police spokeswoman said. Witnesses told police they last saw the suspect heading toward an apartment complex behind the bowling alley.
Green was taken to Sinai Hospital and released Monday. His injuries were not expected to keep him from the team?s first practice of the season, scheduled for July 28.
“From what we understand, they?re minor,” said Chad Steele, a Ravens spokesman, adding that several people from the organization have spoken with Green since the stabbing. Many of the team?s players live in the area of Randallstown and Owings Mills, near the Ravens headquarters and the bowling alley, Steele said. Green is a frequent customer at the Kings Point Lanes Bowling Center, which was just closing at about 1 a.m. when the stabbing occurred, said a spokesman for the company, AMF Bowling.
Green was inside the bowling alley with some friends when he bumped into the suspect, and the two argued, Baltimore County police Sgt. Vickie Warehime said. Deciding it was time to go, Green and his friends headed out to the parking lot. The suspect?s friends tried to hold the man back but he broke free, went after Green and stabbed him with a sharp object, Warehime said.
AMF spokesman Mike Anderson said that it wasn?t clear whether a security guard was on patrol in the parking lot at the time, but that the stabbing was an “isolated incident.”
“As always, our No. 1 concern is the safety of our guests,” he said.
Examiner Staff Writer Matt Palmer contributed to this article.
