Both men involved in a stabbing Tuesday night in Westminster have criminal records, according to Carroll Circuit Court documents.
Joseph Calvin Sheppard, 23, was convicted of manufacturing and possessing of narcotics, according to court records.
A warrant has been issued for Sheppard?s arrest in the stabbing, said Capt. Pete D?Antuono, of the Westminster Police Department.
Ricky Kisner, 25, who was injured in the stabbing, was convicted of first-degree burglary and first-degree assault in the past three years, according to court records.
Kisner was stabbed outside his Westminster apartment, and was listed in serious condition Wednesday afternoon, according to an official at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma.
According to Westminster police Capt. Randy Barnes, Kisner was sitting on his porch on Pennsylvania Avenue when he got into an argument with Sheppard, who pulled out a knife and stabbed Kisner multiple times in his upper torso.
“This is an isolated incident, not a random act of violence,” said Barnes, who said the victim knew the assailant.
Kisner walked a block to the Jiffy Mart at the corner of Carroll and Main streets, where he attempted to get a ride to the hospital, but eventually was taken by ambulance to Carroll Hospital Center and transferred early Wednesday morning to Shock Trauma.
Barnes said investigators searched the area immediately following the stabbing, but could not find the assailant.
Sheppard?s last known address in the 100 block of Liberty Street in Westminster has been vacated.
This is the first stabbing in the city this year.
Though statistics were not available, Barnes said that after 27 years on the force, “rarely do we have random acts of violence where someone is attacked and doesn?t know assailant.”
By the numbers
» According to Uniform Crime Reports, Westminster experienced 30 knife assaults in 2005.
