Suspect In Stabbing Case Pressing Charges Against Victim
ROSEDALE, Md. (WJZ) -- There are surprising new developments in a stabbing we first told you about last week. It happened in Rosedale and started with a teenager carrying a Confederate flag.
Derek Valcourt has the bizarre new twist in the case that has neighbors outraged.
The suspect in that case is now pressing charges against the victim.
"I protected my heart, man," said Dave Buza. "It was either my arm or my heart."
Buza showed WJZ the series of stitches he got when he rushed out of his Duvall Avenue home to try to break up a fight August 16 between his neighbor and an 18-year-old Confederate flag-wielding Brandon Herold.
"I look at my neighbor in the eyes and said, `Stop.' He stopped. The other guy just came at me with a knife," Buza said.
Police arrested Herold for the knife attack and later arrested his father for trying to intimidate neighbors.
That was last Sunday.
But now, Buza---the man neighbors describe as a good Samaritan---is the one behind bars. WJZ learned the suspect got out of jail and turned around and pressed charges against Buza for assault.
"Never. No way. He new threw a punch. All he did was break it up," said Tee Jackson.
Neighbor Tee Jackson saw the whole thing unfold. She says the fight began after Brandon Herold was waving the Confederate flag in front of her house and screaming racial slurs. She says if anything, Buza is the hero for trying to stop the fight.
"What I make of it is, it doesn't make sense that a good Samaritan can't even step in and help someone because now the good person is always getting messed up and now he's arrested. They filed false charges," she said.
"I think it's outrageous," said Rebecca Buza, Dave's daughter.
Rebecca Buza says he's being victimized twice: first, he was stabbed and then arrested and held on $150,000 bail.
"It's just unfair for him to have to sit there and the kid got out that day," she said.
Buza's family says he's coming home Monday night.
Baltimore County State's Attorney Scott Shellenberger says his office will decide quickly if the charges pressed against Buza have any real merit.
Meanwhile, Herold is set for a court appearance on September 11.
