Candace Rondeaux writes, Police Step Up Patrols to Combat Gangs:

The first of the stabbings occurred Nov. 5 about 3:30 p.m. in the Wendy’s restaurant in the Off-Price Shopping Center on Lost Knife Road in Gaithersburg. A 19-year-old Germantown man was stabbed in the hand, police said.

Michael A. Walker, 18, was charged with first-degree assault. Walker, who police said has no fixed address, was being held yesterday in the county jail on $75,000 bond.

About three hours later, in an attack that police said was related, Robert T. Jackson, 21, of Germantown was fatally stabbed as he stood at a bus station in the 9600 block of Lost Knife Road.
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Police said Ronald Antoine, 16, of the 400 block of North Summit Avenue in Gaithersburg, was charged Wednesday with first-degree murder in the stabbing. Antoine, who was charged as an adult, was being held without bond yesterday at the Montgomery Detention Center.

Michael Tunison writes, Two Arrested in Montgomery Metro Stop Shooting

Montgomery County police said today that two teenagers have been arrested in a shooting Monday night near the Shady Grove Metro bus stop, one of several recent episodes of what police say is gang-related violence.

John Hollis Reynolds, 18, of the 14900 block of Coles Chance Road in Gaithersburg, and Phillip Kang, 17, were each charged with two counts of attempted first-degree murder and other crimes. They were being held without bond at the Montgomery County Detention Center.