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A Baltimore judge ordered Abubakarr Barrie held without bond in the stabbing of a 15-year-old girl.

CBS Baltimore and WBAL reported that on Monday, Oct. 26, 2026, a judge ordered Abubakarr Barrie, 23, held without bond. Baltimore Police said he was arrested Oct. 24 and charged with attempted first- and second-degree murder. FOX Baltimore reported kidnapping among nine counts and a preliminary hearing on Nov. 25. The girl is not named here.

By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer · · Updated

Booking photo of Abubakarr Barrie
Photo: Baltimore Police Department

Monday's order keeps him in custody. The counts are what police and the charging documents describe after the Oct. 22 stabbing. FOX Baltimore's Nov. 25 date is the next hearing that station reported. A no-bond order is not a verdict.

CBS Baltimore reported that on Monday, Oct. 26, 2026, a judge ordered Abubakarr Barrie, 23, held without bond in connection with the kidnapping and stabbing of a 15-year-old girl in Northwest Baltimore. The station reported he said nothing at Wabash District Court and that his public defender told the judge he maintains his innocence. FOX Baltimore reported bond was denied after he appeared by video in Baltimore City District Court on nine criminal charges, including first- and second-degree attempted murder, kidnapping, and assault, and that he remains in custody until a preliminary hearing on Nov. 25. WBAL reported the same Monday order holding him without bond, and it reported the counts as attempted first-degree murder and several other offenses. Baltimore Police, in a release at 6:37 a.m. Oct. 26, said detectives arrested Barrie, 23, of Baltimore, on Oct. 24 in the 3700 block of Garrison Boulevard, took him to Central Booking, and charged him with attempted first- and second-degree murder and multiple counts of assault. The police release does not list kidnapping and does not give a count of nine. Wabash District Court is CBS Baltimore's name. Baltimore City District Court is FOX Baltimore's. Nov. 25 is FOX Baltimore's date. The girl is not named in this account.

Baltimore Police said the stabbing of the 15-year-old girl occurred on Oct. 22, 2026, in the 3800 block of Belle Avenue. CBS Baltimore, citing charging documents, reported Barrie picked her up while operating an unlicensed hack cab, that she had asked to go to a carryout, and that he "immediately became violent." The station reported he drove her to a basement apartment in the 3700 block of Garrison Boulevard, where the documents say he "advised her to put her phone down and not to scream," and that police wrote he "began stabbing her all over her body, so she said she began scratching and clawing at [him]." CBS Baltimore reported police said he pulled off her clothes, that she hit him with a fire extinguisher, and that she ran out without clothes or shoes and reached the 3800 block of Belle Avenue, about 10 minutes away, where someone let her use a phone to call 911 and her mother. WBAL reported the same hack, the wrong direction, the basement, the fire extinguisher, and Belle Avenue about five minutes away. Ten minutes and five minutes are not the same distance. FOX Baltimore reported the charging documents say that on Oct. 22 he picked her up near Druid Hill Park, that she was trying to get to a carryout called PlataKing in northeast Baltimore, that he put her in a headlock when she said he was going the wrong way, and that he dragged her into the basement. The headlock, Druid Hill Park, and PlataKing are FOX Baltimore's. CBS Baltimore did not print them. The police release puts the stabbing on Belle Avenue. CBS Baltimore, FOX Baltimore, and WBAL put the stabbing in the Garrison basement and Belle Avenue as the place she reached for help. Those are two locations for one event.

CBS Baltimore reported police tracked him with her phone, which they said he still had, and that a phone number he gave her for a Cash App payment, together with a white Hyundai Elantra, identified him. FOX Baltimore reported she identified him in a photo lineup after detectives traced the Cash App account and the car. WBAL reported her phone pinged at his home through Find My iPhone and that police served an arrest warrant on Saturday. Saturday, Oct. 24, is the date Baltimore Police gave for the arrest in the 3700 block of Garrison Boulevard. CBS Baltimore reported he had lived on that block for about a month. WBAL reported the public defender's office said he had lived in the house for one month. CBS Baltimore and WBAL reported the public defender said he worked for Uber Eats. WBAL called him a full-time Uber Eats driver. The hack the charging documents describe is an unlicensed ride. It is not described as an Uber Eats delivery. CBS Baltimore reported police said she was stabbed at least five times, suffered a collapsed lung, and is expected to survive. FOX Baltimore reported five stab wounds, one of which caused a collapsed lung, and that first responders took her to a hospital the station spelled Sinani. WBAL reported she is recovering in the hospital from injuries including a collapsed lung. The hospital spelling is FOX Baltimore's.

What the court was told about his record is not one account. CBS Baltimore reported court officials said he had prior arrests but no prior convictions, that pretrial services reported a history of suicide attempts, and that his attorney asked that he be monitored in custody. The station reported the public defender said he was working toward a GED. FOX Baltimore reported the defense said he has no prior criminal history, and the station reported online records showed an arrest for prostitution in Baltimore County nearly three months ago that was marked stet, which the station said means the case is on hold. WBAL reported the public defender's office said he has no criminal history. A stet is not a conviction. Prior arrests with no convictions, no criminal history, and a prostitution arrest marked stet are three descriptions of one record. CBS Baltimore reported he faces nine charges, including attempted first-degree murder, which the station said carries the possibility of life in prison if he is convicted. That maximum is what the station said the count can carry. It is not a sentence. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

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