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Inset: Rashard Mack (Baltimore Detention Center). Background: The apartment complex where Mack allegedly killed his ex-girlfriend (WBAL).
A 23-year-old man from Maryland has been apprehended following accusations of murdering his former girlfriend, stabbing her to death at a Baltimore home over the weekend, just one day after she messaged friends that she feared for her life because of him.
Authorities revealed that Rashard Mack was detained on Saturday, facing a first-degree murder charge in the death of 22-year-old Taejhiana Walker. The Baltimore Police Department issued a news release stating that officers responded around 1 p.m. on Saturday to a domestic altercation report at a residence in the 8300 block of Nunley Drive.
Upon arrival, the first responders reported entering the home and finding two adults, one identified as Walker, suffering from what seemed to be stab wounds. Walker was declared dead at the scene, while the other individual, Mack, was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment of injuries that were not life-threatening.
Upon Mack’s release from the hospital, detectives placed him under arrest and charged him with Walker’s murder.
Court documents obtained by Baltimore NBC affiliate WBAL provided additional details about the circumstances of Walker’s death.
According to the report, when police first reached the residence, Mack was found “seated in the living room of the apartment in a metal folding chair. A broken knife blade with blood on it was observed on the floor next to him.”
Initially, Mack reportedly told police that Walker was his girlfriend and that she tried to kill him, claiming she “was swinging a knife” at him, so he “grabbed her hand and tried to stop her.”
“[T]he victim retrieved a kitchen knife from her nightstand and stabbed him in the abdomen,” police reportedly wrote in a probable cause affidavit transcribing Mack’s version of events. “He grabbed the knife while it was in her hand and broke the blade off as he attempted to keep her from stabbing him. He then wrestled her onto the bed and then to the floor, and stated the victim picked up the knife blade and stabbed him in the leg. Mack then stated he grabbed a pair of scissors and had to stab her a few more times.”
However, after a preliminary investigation, authorities say evidence led them to believe that Mack attacked Walker while she was on the bed and that his own wounds were self-inflicted.
Police spoke to Walker’s roommate, who told them Walker and Mack met through Instagram in the summer of 2024 and the two started dating, Baltimore ABC affiliate WMAR reported. But earlier this year, Walker stopped taking Mack’s calls. Mack grew more frustrated, and reportedly even began calling Walker’s roommates to reach her.
The day before Walker was fatally stabbed, Mack allegedly waited inside her car for hours to speak to her. Later that night, she reportedly sent a family member an ominous text message:
“If I end up dead, his name is Rashard Mack,” the message reportedly read.
Mack is currently being held in the Baltimore County Detention Center without bond.
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