An 18-year-old man was fatally stabbed Sunday morning — nearly a decade after his sister’s 1998 stabbing death — while trying to help another man who was being assaulted, police said.

His death marked the 134th homicide in Baltimore City this year and the third of the weekend.

Police arrived at about 2 a.m. at the unit block of South Chapel Street for a report of multiple stabbings and found Michael Simms and two other men, ages 18 and 22, in a heap on the street, said Agent Donny Moses, a police spokesman.

Simms, of Northbourne Avenue, suffered stab wounds to the left side of his chest, and one of the other men bled from a puncture wound in his neck.

This story continues below
Advertisement

An ambulance took the three men to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where Simms was pronounced dead.

One of the victims was in serious but stable condition Sunday. The other suffered non-life-threatening injuries, Moses said.

According to police, one of the victims was involved in an altercation Saturday afternoon with one of the two suspects who police consider responsible for the stabbings.

The suspects returned early Sunday morning, and the fight resumed, Moses said.

That’s when Simms intervened.

Simms’ sister, Jerrisha Burton, 18, was found stabbed to death in the back seat of her grandmother’s car on Fillmore Street in January 1998. Police arrested a suspect, Earnest Rivers, 39, earlier this year after investigators registered a DNA match, Moses said.

jpalazzolo@baltimoreexaminer.com