Wire Actor Christopher Clanton Stabbed in Baltimore

James Joyner @ Gone Hollywood | Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Christopher Clanton, who plays the role of Savino Bratton in “The Wire,” a police drama set in Baltimore, has been stabbed in that city. (Actually, he was stabbed in the butt — but the incident took place in Baltimore.)

Thankfully, he’s fine.

An actor on the Baltimore-based HBO series “The Wire” was stabbed in the chest and buttocks during a melee early yesterday at a social hall in Overlea.

About 2 a.m., Baltimore County police rushed to Overlea Event Center in the 6800 block of Belair Road, and used pepper spray to disperse a crowd of about 30 people, several of whom were fighting, a police spokesman said.

After the fight was over, police officers discovered that Christopher J. Clanton, 22, had been stabbed. Clanton, who played a recurring character on “The Wire,” was taken to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center by ambulance, authorities said.

Reached by telephone this morning, Clanton, 22, said he was in good condition and expected to be released later today or tomorrow. “Mayhem broke out,” Clanton recounted. He said he was trying to push past a fight between two other men when someone started fighting with him, and others assaulted him. “I was trying to get out of the way. I wanted to get past one of the guys that was involved,” Clanton said. “It escalated from there.”