Crime & Safety
Arrest Made in Scarsdale Road Murder
Edwin Alexander Iglesias-Reyes, charged with first-degree murder, is being held without bail at the Baltimore County Detention Center.
Edwin Alexander Iglesias-Reyes, 20, has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of a roommate in the 400 block of Scarsdale Road on Monday, according to Baltimore County police.
Police allege that Iglesias-Reyes stabbed and killed Victor DeJesus Portillo-Portillo, 26, according to public safety spokeswoman Elise Armacost.
Iglesias-Reyes, 20, is being held without bail at the Baltimore County Detention Center.
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Homicide investigators say that Iglesias-Reyes and Portillo-Portillo were roommates who had gotten into an argument, according to Armacost. Investigators do not know what the argument was about.
Iglesias-Reyes stabbed Portillo-Portillo multiple times and fled the home immediately afterward, leaving a trail of blood throughout the neighborhood.
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Police and fire units responded to a call for a cardiac arrest at the Scarsdale Road home at 6:21 a.m. Aug. 20.
When they arrived, officers discovered the victim dead from multiple stab wounds. They also observed a blood trail leading out of the basement into a rear alley where a knife was found. The blood trail continued out into the surrounding community.
Investigators discovered that Iglesias-Reyes left the Scarsdale Road residence after the stabbing and met with residents at a home in the 7900 block of Eastdale Road.
He was found in Baltimore City, getting into a cab and attempting to leave town, Armacost said in an email to Patch.
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