EDINBURG — An 18-year-old Edinburg man has been charged with stabbing a mother and her two young children in the town park on Thursday evening.
The Shenandoah County Sheriff’s Office arrested Samual Jacob Homer, 18, at the park Thursday and he has been charged with three felony counts of aggravated malicious wounding.
The three victims — a 27-year-old Edinburg woman and her two children, a 5-year-old girl and a 1-year-old girl — are in stable condition, Shenandoah County Sheriff Timothy C. Carter said at a news conference Friday.
He also elaborated on a statement he made Thursday night from the scene when he said that the victim did not know Homer. Carter said the woman who was attacked was able to identify her assailant, but could not confirm if she recognized who Homer was.
“When you hear of this incident, one would instantly think that there must be a relationship or it might be a domestic relationship or something like that,” Carter said. “That is not the case.”
Briahnna M. Brown 