Relative Faces Life In Prison After Triple Stabbing That Left 15-Year-Old Girl Dead
EDGEWOOD, Md. (WJZ)—Deadly stabbing a teenager is killed and her mother and twin sister were injured during an attack at their apartment in Edgewood.
Rochelle Ritchie has more on the man under arrest and how the school community is grieving.
We have learned that the man is a relative of the three victims. One of them, a 15-year-old girl, died after being stabbed multiple times. The judge issued him no bail.
Charging documents reveal 21-year-old Ivan Bustamante is a relative of the three stabbing victims, who have been identified as Melay Hernandez (deceased), Maria Hernandez (mother) and Lizbeth Hernandez (twin).
"We do not know the motive right now, but we do know this was not a random incident," said Cpl. Warren Brooks said.
"She was always smiling. She was a really nice person," said a friend.
Friends say she attended Edgewood High School. Now students are mourning, wearing all black.
"When they said her name on the announcements, that's when I started breaking down," said friend Anisa Khalid. "I heard it yesterday 8 o'clock and I couldn't stop crying."
Charging documents say the surviving twin told investigators, "Mr. Bustamante had come into the home with two knives. After entering the home, he attacked all three victims."
"The lady upstairs, she heard the kids crying and when the husband came home, he started hollering `Call 911,'" said neighbor Doreen Hambrick.
The documents reveal the stab wounds were located in the chest, head and neck.
Those who grew up with Bustamante say they never saw him as a murderer.
"It's very shocking," said Joe Gemma.
Melay Hernandez is said to have been a popular student and very close to her twin.
"We wanted to come to school and see her smiling and walking down the hallway but it didn't happen so it really crushed us," said Khalid.
Bustamante's next court hearing is scheduled for December 4. He faces life in prison.
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