Knife Drawn During Weekend Property Dispute

A property dispute led to a potentially deadly altercation over the weekend. 

The incident began shortly before 10 p.m. on Sunday May 29 at the Forest Village apartment complex off of Fall Hill Avenue. Police say that 21-year-old Spotsylvania resident Tomaso Passagaluppi arrived at the victim's apartment complex and knocked on the door to be let in. Inside the apartment are three roommates, a man and two women. The man went to open the door, but upon seeing Passagaluppi, he attempted to shut the door. Police say that Passagaluppi then forced his way into apartment with a knife in hand and immediately began attacking the man. 

One of the female roommates entered the fray and knocked the knife away from Passagaluppi before going outside to call for police.  

When police arrived, they found the two men inside the apartment still fighting on the floor. The two immediately complied with police who ordered them to stop fighting. 

Natatia Bledsoe, public information officer for the Fredericksburg Police Department says that the only person to receive serious injuries during the altercation was Passagaluppi, who required medical treatment at Mary Washington Hospital before being incarcerated at Rappahannock Regional Jail under no bond for charges of attempted malicious wounding and felony breaking and entering.