(Via Baltimore Sun) A Baltimore police officer was stabbed multiple times after responding to a domestic incident at an apartment building housing mostly University of Baltimore students early Saturday morning, police and school officials said.

The officer had responded to The Varsity on W. Biddle Street when he was stabbed in the face and neck, police said. James Goss, 20, was taken into custody at the scene. He faces 12 charges, including attempted murder and assault.

The officer was taken to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center and his condition is serious but stable, police said. The department did not name the officer but said the 15-year veteran is married and has a young daughter.

Interim Commissioner Kevin Davis called the incident “a violent attack by a deranged knife-wielding predator.”

“Nearly stabbing to death and disfiguring a police officer is not an acceptable outcome for police officers who respond to 911 calls for service and otherwise protect this great city,” Davis said.

Police said the officer is a uniformed patrol officer from the Central District, who along with a second officer, were dispatched at 2:16 a.m. to the apartment building at 30 W. Biddle Street.

A building security guard had called police after hearing Goss and a woman fighting in an upstairs apartment. After the security guard knocked on the door and identified himself as security, Goss told him through the door, “if you don’t leave I am going to cut you,” police wrote in charging documents.  (read more)