Woman Involved In 2005 Nordstrom Stabbing Arrested After Lanham Crime

The woman at a Lanham Target Monday is reportedly the same woman involved in a 2005 stabbing at the in the Westfield Montgomery Mall, according to NBC Washington.

Prince George’s County police they arrested Antoinette C. Starks after she stabbed another woman around 9:45a.m. Monday at the Target on Martin Luther King Highway. A Taser had to be used on Starks before she was arrested, Bowie Patch reported.

Prince George’s police confirmed to ABC7 that Starks is the same woman involved in the 2005 Nordstrom’s attack, during which two women were stabbed. Starks reportedly chased shoppers with four butcher knives in the 2005 incident that happened a day following her release from prison, where she had been serving time for malicious destruction of property, the Washington Post reported in April.

The April Washington Post report detailed a ruling by a Montgomery County judge that Nordstrom should pay $1.6 million to the two women stabbed in 2005 for not giving adequate warning of the attack.

In the same story, the Post reported that Starks, a paranoid schizophrenic who had been declared not criminally responsible in the 2005 crime, had recently been recommended for release from the Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center, a state mental hospital. Citing a report from an administrative law judge, the Post reported Starks had been free of symptoms since May of 2007. The judge’s report recommended that Starks be “released to a group home, take medications as prescribed, not possess weapons and abide by other conditions,” the Post reported.

ABC7 reported that Starks was armed with two pairs of knives taped together in Monday's incident.

A 2005 Washington Post story following the Nordstrom incident reported that Starks was armed with four knives in that attack, two of them taped together to create a double blade.