UPDATED: Fairfax County Police Arrest Man in Connection to Stabbing in Merrifield

(Updated 3 p.m.) Fairfax County police arrested a 51-year-old D.C. man and charged him with aggravated malicious wounding for allegedly stabbing a man.

Police tweeted that they responded to the stabbing in the 2700 block of Dorr Avenue, which is near the Prosperity Flats Apartments and the Dunn Loring-Merrifield Metro station, last night (Tuesday) around 9 p.m.

“Two men known to each other were arguing in a parking lot when one man stabbed the other man,” police said.

The victim was taken the hospital with life-threatening injuries,” police said.

“There is no threat to public safety,” police tweeted.

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