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Md. Stabbing Suspect Had Just Left Prison
Police gather in the mall parking garage outside the store where two women were stabbed on Wednesday.
(Susan Biddle -- The Washington Post)
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Everngam ordered Starks held without bail and also ordered that she receive a psychiatric evaluation.
Starks had two psychiatric evaluations as part of her 2003 trial on 11 charges of malicious destruction of property.
Timothy L. Fitts, a Baltimore lawyer who represented her in the trial, said in a telephone interview that he argued in court that she was not criminally responsible for the charges because of a mental condition.
He did not specify what condition had been diagnosed but said "there was a high probability that she was in need of some treatment."
Starks disagreed, he said, and lunged at him during a hearing while he argued that she was not competent to stand trial.
"I was standing with my back to her, and I turned around and next thing I saw, two deputies [were] restraining her," Fitts said.
Starks demanded another attorney, Fitts said. She was assigned a Montgomery public defender, court records show.
She received a 2 1/2 -year prison sentence on five of the 11 counts. It could not be immediately determined why she was let out after 18 months. Mark Vernarelli, a spokesman for the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, said yesterday that as a condition of her release, she was supposed to be under the supervision of parole and probation officials until May 2006.
Starks's criminal record indicates various addresses in the Baltimore area before she moved to Montgomery. Fitts said he believes she has relatives who live on Maryland's Eastern Shore.
The two women seriously wounded Wednesday were released from hospitals yesterday. Paseltiner was treated at Washington Hospital Center, said hospital spokeswoman Paula Faria. She was stabbed in the back, the left hand and the shoulder blade.
Greismann, who was stabbed eight times in the back while she rode the escalator, was treated at Suburban Hospital, said her husband, who asked that his first name not be published for privacy reasons.
Karcher, the FBI agent, declined to be interviewed but said in a written statement: "Thankfully, neither of the victims' injuries was life threatening, and the suspect was apprehended before causing any further harm."
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