Man arrested in Detroit EMTs attack pleads not guilty in 2006

Indiana University has expelled a 19-year-old sophomore accused of attacking Muslim woman over the weekend, trying to remove her headscarf and shouting racial slurs, a school official said Tuesday.

Montgomery is charged with first-degree murder, felony murder and criminal sexual assault.

Sgt. Lance Sullivan said the key evidence was DNA on a swab taken from Montgomery during an arrest earlier this year.

One of the two Detroit emergency medical technicians who survived a stabbing says he feels “lucky” and “blessed”.

Interim Fire Commissioner Eric Jones described the injuries as “horrific” and says Adams and Rojas were “within inches of dying”.

EMT Kelly Adams’ face was slashed and her EMT partner, Alfredo Rojas, was stabbed in his right hand and slashed just below the right eye, Fox 2 reports.

Rojas’s mother told WDIV-TV her son does “his job with all his heart”.

A man arrested in the stabbing of two emergency medical technicians in Detroit has been charged in two other cases, including the 2006 sexual assault and fatal stabbing of a teenager, authorities announced Wednesday. Police also arrested the woman who was initially being treated by technicians when the attack started.

Rojas and Adams were released from a hospital Wednesday, about 36 hours after the stabbings.

He is also facing charges of criminal sexual conduct, kidnapping, torture and a felony firearm violation for an incident involving a 33-year-old Detroit woman on December 23, 2005.

The man, identified by the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office as Michael Montgomery, has not been charged in connection with the stabbings of the two EMTs. Charges were brought in both cases before his arrest.

Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said Montgomery has been wanted by police for almost 10 years.

The Detroit Free Press reported an “agitated” man with a sharp object stabbed EMT workers Kelly Adams and Alfredo Rojas who were responding to help a woman with a reported ankle injury.

Michael Montgomery arraigned via video conference October 21 in district court in Detroit.