The suspect wanted for fatally stabbing his wife the morning of Feb. 8 in Ellicott City has turned himself in to police and is facing first-degree murder and violation of protective order charges.
At approximately 8:13 a.m., police responded to a residence in the 3400 block of Huntsmans Run for a report that 53-year-old Alexander Stephenson had stabbed his wife, 47-year-old Amethyst Stephenson, and then fled. Amethyst was pronounced dead at the scene. Stephenson is estranged from his wife and was not living at the residence.
Stephenson later turned himself in at Howard County police’s northern district station in Ellicott City. He was transported to University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center with non-life-threatening self-inflicted wounds and will be booked into the Howard County Detention Center upon release from the hospital.
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