CCTV footage released by police in the state of Maryland showed a man stabbing a woman with a syringe in her right buttock. Katie Peters, the victim, was pushing a shopping cart and putting it back with the other carts when Thomas Bryon Stemen, 51, attacked her. Peters said she immediately confronted the man after the attack, who reportedly told her: “I know it feels like a bee sting, doesn’t it?”

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Peters started driving home after the incident. “It started hurting really bad. I called my son and said, ‘Something’s not right, I hope nothing happens. I hope I make it home, I love you.'” Stemen was later arrested because of the attack. Authorities then found and confiscated syringes in his car that were filled with semen. They claimed that they were “unsure if any of those were the syringe in question” used in the assault. Thus, it’s still not clear whether or not the syringe used to attack Peters was filled with semen.

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“What we're doing now is we need to find out, do additional testing, find out what this victim is up against if she was stabbed with one of those semen-filled syringes,” Anne Arundel County Police Sgt. Jacklyn Davis said.

According to All That’s Interesting, a site for curious people who want to know more about what they see on the news or read in history books, Stemen has been charged with assault and reckless endangerment. Aside from that, he might be also facing additional charges due to the semen-filled syringes found in his car. “If you’ve seen this video, it’s very aggressive, it’s very deliberate — and that makes us think it’s not his first time doing this,” Davis said.

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As of now, District Court Judge John P. McKenna ordered that Stemen’s blood must “be tested for the presence of HIV and any other identified causative agents of AIDS and Hepatitis C.”