It was a 17-year-old teenager and not a woman, as initially reported, the stabbed last Saturday night at Miami International Airport (MIA), the network said Monday Telemundo 51.
The victim was sitting on the floor of the fourth floor of Terminal J in the Arrivals section when he was stabbed 18 times in various parts of his body around 11:30 p.m., according to Miami-Dade Police.
The violent incident caused disruption at the airport and ended with the arrest of the attacker, identified as Alexander Love, 29 years old.
Love, in addition to stabbing him, tried to throw him over the railing, but the teenager managed to escape and ran down the stairs to the third floor where police officers found him.
Police took the victim, who has not been identified, to the emergency room at the Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital, where he was reported to be in critical condition and underwent surgery.
Her attacker is in the county’s TGK jail and faces an attempted murder charge.. He was denied bail on Monday.
For his part, in the arrest report, The attacker revealed that he met the victim at the airport where he was possibly drugged and that someone inserted an unknown object into his rectum.
Unsure whether the teenager was the one who caused the object to be inserted, the man said he needed to hurt whoever did it, so he bought a knife at a store near the airport facility.
However, Miami-Dade Police Detective, Angel Rodriguez He said it was “considered an isolated incident.”
