Lower Merion man jailed for stabbing

Montco Courthouse

NORRISTOWN – A Lower Merion Township man is headed to prison after admitting to stabbing another man with a knife during an altercation at a township residence.

Brandon Charles Adger, 37, of the 200 block of Simpson Road, was sentenced in Montgomery County Court to 11½ to 23 months in county prison after pleading guilty to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the August attack. 14.2023, stabbing. Adger will receive credit for the days he spent in jail awaiting trial following his arrest last August.

Judge Steven T. O’Neill, who agreed to a plea deal in the case, also ordered that Adger serve three years of post-release probation, meaning Adger will be under court supervision for five years.

As a condition of the sentence, the judge ordered that Adger not have any contact with the victim. The knife, the judge added, should be turned over to Lower Merion police “for destruction.”

The investigation began around 11:30 p.m. on Aug. 14 when Lower Merion police responded to a residence in the 100 block of East County Line Road in Ardmore Township for a report of a stabbing, a Lower Merion criminal complaint states -Detective Andrew Rook.

“(The victim) had facial injuries as well as a stab wound to his upper right arm,” Rook wrote in the affidavit, adding that the victim told police he was stabbed by Adger, a male acquaintance.

Adger left the apartment before police arrived. The victim was transported by ambulance to Lankenau Hospital for treatment of his injuries.

The victim told investigators that he was in the apartment he shared with several others when Adger entered the apartment “angry” looking for marijuana papers. According to court documents, Adger yelled at the victim, “I’m going to kill you,” and then punched him in the face.

The victim pushed Adger away and went to his bedroom, investigators said. Adger followed the victim, continued to threaten him and took one of his knives from the victim’s knife collection, according to the affidavit.

“Adger repeatedly attempted to stab (the victim) in the abdominal area of ​​his body,” Rook alleged.

Two other men in the apartment came to the victim’s bedroom to help the victim and Adger yelled at all the men. Adger began hitting the victim with the knife and “stabbed the victim in the face with the knife,” investigators alleged.

When the victim tried to fight off the knife, he suffered a cut to his right triceps. Adger then struck the victim in the back of the head several times before friends of the victim managed to get Adger to leave the apartment, the affidavit states.

The victim then called 911. Court documents do not indicate when Adger was taken into custody.

Additional charges against Adger of making terroristic threats, recklessly endangering another person, simple assault and harassment were dismissed as part of the plea agreement.