Six Slashed At Retirement Home

A housekeeper went on a rampage at a nursing home with a knife, slashing four elderly residents and two other people after a dispute with a supervisor, authorities said.

Mustafa Mohamed, 30, was denied bail Monday on charges of malicious wounding. More charges were possible in the attack Sunday, prosecutors said.

Three women residents of Goodwin House - two of them ages 92 and 94 - were hospitalized, along with a 40-year-old female employee and a 62-year-old man who was visiting the place. An 88-year-old female resident refused medical treatment.

Prosecutor S. Randolph Sengel said one victim had a broken neck and another required 200 stitches.

A preliminary hearing was scheduled for Feb. 14.

"The motive appears to arise out of a dispute between the defendant and one of his supervisors," Sengel said.

Sengel called Mohamed a danger and a flight risk. The case will go to a grand jury, which could mean additional charges. A preliminary hearing is scheduled next month.

A visitor managed to disarm Mohamed, police said. A Goodwin House employee praised that man as a hero.

Goodwin House spokeswoman Colleen Ryan Mallon says Mohamed was hired about a year ago and passed a criminal background check in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C.