Parking Spot Fight: Man Stabs Driver With Screwdriver

SILVER SPRING, Md. - One man is repeatedly stabbed with a screwdriver. The other faces assault charges. The two were arguing over a parking spot.

Here's what police say happened in the 900 block of Bonifant Street in Silver Spring.

Edward Banya, 42, of Hyattsville, saw the 28-year-old Silver Spring man parked in a spot, it appeared the man was ready to pull out. Police say Banya thought the driver was slow to leave the spot.

The driver, whose identity the police have not released, was waiting for someone.

The two men started arguing. Banya grabbed a screwdriver and stabbed the man over and over again in the hand and torso, police say. The wounds, according to Montgomery County Police spokesman Officer Rodney Barnes, were superficial. The man was released from the hospital Tuesday night.

Police charged Banya with first-degree assault and reckless endangerment. He also faces copyright offenses after police found thousands of pirated DVD movies in his car.

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