Ape goes on stabbing spree at high school reunion
Mike Gross
BALTIMORE -- The man accused of stabbing several people at a high school
reunion over the weekend was denied bail on Monday.
During the bail review, 28-year-old James Dixon had very little to say
and gave no clues as to what happened over the weekend, 11 News reporter
Lisa Robinson said. The judge called Dixon a serious risk to public
safety and a flight risk.
Dixon's arrest on first-degree murder and first-degree attempted murder
charges followed a weekend party at the Patapsco Arena in south
Baltimore during a class reunion of Walbrook High School graduates who
attended the school from 1995 to 2005.
Police said there was an altercation inside and that Dixon stabbed six
people, killing one of them, 23-year-old Carrington McNutt.
The charging documents give little information about a motive, Robinson
reported.
The documents said that when police arrived at the arena at about 1 a.m.
Saturday for reports of a shooting, they found "an unknown black male
lying face-up in a pool of blood." The document stated that the police
officer who responded "was unable to determine the exact location of the
victim's wounds due to the large amount of blood on his face."
The document said that detectives later found out that the victim had
not been shot and had instead suffered several stab wounds to the neck
and head. The documents said the victim was taken to Shock Trauma, where
he died a little later.
The police report didn't list the names of any witnesses to protect them
from retaliation, Robinson reported.
Dixon's public defender noted in court that there are questions about
who those witnesses are and how they came to identify Dixon.
The lawyer said that Dixon has a 10th-grade education and went to
Douglass High School before getting his GED. She said he had been
working at a Shop and Save for the last two years.
The state pre-trial investigator said in court that Dixon has seven
prior convictions for various offenses.