{"id":111648,"date":"2025-08-15T16:56:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T21:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=111648"},"modified":"2025-08-15T16:56:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T21:56:41","slug":"111648","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=111648","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbreak.com\/cecil-whig-1591339\/4175727375880-police-man-fatally-stabbed-elkton-teen-in-self-defense-no-charges-warranted\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Police: Man fatally stabbed Elkton teen in self-defense; no charges warranted<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ELKTON [Maryland] \u2014 Police and prosecutors have elected not to file criminal charges against a one-armed man who fatally stabbed a 14-year-old boy on the street of an Elkton neighborhood last month <strong>\u2014 concluding that he acted in self-defense while attacked by the teen and several companions \u2014 including one who struck the victim multiple times with a shovel.\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong>[Ya think?]<\/p>\n<p>Cecil County State\u2019s Attorney James Dellymer provided that update Thursday afternoon during a press conference at the Railroad Avenue headquarters of the Elkton Police Department, which has been conducting the ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, two days before the press conference, police privately told the mother of Jordin Collins \u2014 the teen who was fatally stabbed \u2014 they had concluded self-defense and that they would not be filing charges against the stabber, a man in his 30s with an amputated left arm. Authorities are identifying him only as \u201cTy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police: Man fatally stabbed Elkton teen in self-defense; no charges warranted ELKTON [Maryland] \u2014 Police and prosecutors have elected not to file criminal charges against a one-armed man who fatally stabbed a 14-year-old boy on the street of an Elkton neighborhood last month \u2014 concluding that he acted in self-defense while attacked by the teen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=111648\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-defense","category-slugs-for-thugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111649,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111648\/revisions\/111649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}