Man stabs 14-year-old girl at mall after she and her friends joke on the escalator that he smells, cops say

A antheral successful a Pennsylvania promenade was coming down the escalator erstwhile helium heard teenage girls making amusive of however helium smelled, and helium stabbed 1 of them, authorities say.

Angel Ortiz, 23, faces charges including aggravated assault, elemental assault, recklessly endangering different person, harassment, and possession of an instrumentality of transgression with intent, tribunal records reviewed by Law&Crime show. He is successful the Montgomery County Correctional Facility connected a $50,000 bail.

On Wednesday astatine astir 2 p.m., a 14-year-old miss and her friends were riding down an escalator wrong the Willow Grove Park Mall successful Abington Township, Pennsylvania, which is conscionable northbound of Philadelphia. Ortiz was close down them, according to a transgression ailment obtained by country NBC affiliate WCAU.

One of the girls reportedly made a remark that different teen smelled and past turned to Ortiz, accusing him of having the foul odor. He reacted angrily and started yelling astatine them, the miss said.

"Why don't you deed me?" Ortiz allegedly said respective times to the girl. According to police, surveillance footage showed Ortiz walking distant from the girls earlier the 14-year-old followed him and past appeared to deed him connected the head.

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Ortiz reportedly responded by swiping backmost astatine her with a weapon successful his hand. He said helium didn't mean to stab her, lone to get her to "back off," but she ended up with wounds connected some her arms, from which she was bleeding.

The Abington Township Police Department reported arriving astatine the promenade conscionable earlier 2:30 p.m. pursuing a study that a pistillate had been assaulted by a antheral equipped with a knife. The girl, "who had sustained aggregate lacerations from an edged weapon," was brought to an country infirmary wherever she was treated for non-life-threatening injuries, constabulary said.

Officers spotted Ortiz nearby. He allegedly said that aft the combat with the teen, helium went to a adjacent Chipotle edifice to "cool off" and hold for the bus, per WCAU. He was arrested with 2 pouch knives connected him, constabulary said.

Officers noted that the fishy and unfortunate did not cognize each different earlier the incident.

Ortiz had a preliminary arraignment connected Thursday. He is expected backmost successful tribunal for a preliminary proceeding connected April 29.