Maryland man whose attack on a woman with a semen-filled syringe was caught on camera sentenced to 10 years

Anne Arundel County police have release video that they believe shows a suspect approach and jab a victim in a store lobby in Churchton.

CHURCHTON, Md. - A Maryland man who plunged a semen-filled syringe into a woman in an Anne Arundel County grocery store is headed to prison.

Thomas Bryon Stemen was sentenced to 10 years in prison for first and second-degree assault.

He pleaded guilty in June.

Stemen attacked Katie Peters in February at Christopher's Fine Foods on Shady Side Road in Churchton.

The incident was caught on surveillance video.

According to investigators, Stemen tried to attack two other people before Peters.

Stemen had recently moved from Ohio and had six prior convictions on his record from 1986 to 1996.