WASHINGTON — A man was arrested and charged after stabbing a man and striking a woman with a car at the Basilica of the National Shrine in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday morning, D.C. police said.
Officers were called to the Basilica around 9:14 a.m. for a reported stabbing.
Upon further investigation, officials said 48-year-old Dorsey Lee Mack III of Northwest, D.C. struck a woman security guard with an SUV and stabbed a male security guard in the chest and the eye before fleeing the scene. Police said Mack had some sort of relationship with the woman security guard.
Mack abandoned the SUV shortly after and police have since recovered the vehicle.
They said Mack then fled to the area of the 1300 block of Sheridan Avenue at Georgia Avenue where police caught up with him. Officers established contact with him and the barricade situation ended without further incident.
It is unknown if the stabbing happened inside or outside of the Basilica.
According to a statement released by the Director of Communications for the Basilica of the National Shrine, the victims were members of their security staff. They believe the Mack knew the man and woman.
No visitors or guests were harmed in the incident.