Md. Double Stabbing Was Self Defense, Police Say
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Thursday, September 3, 2009; 5:11 PM
Prosecutors have dropped the charges against a College Park man accused of fatally stabbing one man and wounding another during a domestic dispute last month, according to police and online court records.
Roberto Edmundo Cruz, 45, was cleared of a second-degree murder charge after investigators found the incident to be "a case of self defense," police said. According to online court records, he was released from jail on August 26.
Cruz had been charged in connection with the fatal stabbing of Johnny Elmer Alvarez-Gomez, 28, of Gaithersburg, at a residence in the 5000 block of Hollywood Road in College Park. There, police said, Cruz stabbed Alvarez-Gomez and a 19-year-old Riverdale man after a domestic dispute turned violent. Both men were found in the parking lot of a nearby 7-Eleven convenience store and transported to area hospitals, where Alvarez-Gomez later died.
Police declined to say what circumstances led to the self-defense ruling. A spokesman for the Prince George's state's attorney did not immediately return a phone message seeking comment.
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