An off-duty Baltimore City police officer has been released from a hospital after a stabbing incident outside a North Point Blvd bar early Thursday morning. The victim having been stabbed several times by two assailants was able to fire his service revolver wounding one suspect causing the second to run.

New information about the stabbing and wounding of the assailant has come to light. Initially it had been believed that only one man attacked the officer but a follow-up investigation has revealed he was attacked by two men. The officer was able to shoot one of them.

The victim is identified as Officer Eric Jansen, 42, of the Baltimore Police Department, a 15-year veteran of the department. The suspect shot by Jansen is at Shock Trauma and has not yet been charged. The second suspect is identified as Lucas James Baumeister, 23, of Marjeff Place, Parkville. He is currently being held at the Baltimore County Detention Center with bail denied, and is charged with attempted first-degree murder and assault.

The incident began early Thursday morning as Jansen was leaving Christina’s Female Revue located in the 4500-block of North Point Boulevard, Dundalk. As he left the building the two men ran up to him and began stabbing him in the neck and lower back. Officer Jansen produced a handgun he was carrying off-duty and shot one of the attackers once in the upper body. That man and Officer Jansen were taken to Shock Trauma. Baumeister was at the scene of the incident and was at first interviewed by detectives as a witness. However, based on that interview, detectives determined Baumeister was the other suspect, and he was placed under arrest Thursday night. Officer Jansen has since been released from the hospital.

Investigators do not know the motive for the attack.

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