From the Baltimore Sun: "Wire" actor stabbed in the ass!!!

What kind of thugs we got that run around stabbing people in the ass?

LMAO

TAZ
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'Wire' actor stabbed at Overlea party
Clanton, who played Savino, says he is in good condition
By Gus G. Sentementes and Brent Jones

Sun reporters

11:24 AM EDT, March 24, 2008

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 Caterers Inc., 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."

Cpl. Michael Hill, a county police spokesman, said Clanton was the only person who reported being injured during the fight. At least 30 people were at the party, Hill said.

A manager at Overlea Caterers could not be immediately reached for comment this morning.

Clanton played Savino Bratton, a recurring character in "The Wire" who appeared in nine episodes in the first and fifth seasons. In the show's last season, Clanton's character -- a soldier in a drug organization -- was killed by Omar Little, who robbed drug dealers for a living.

The actor also was an extra on "The Corner," a 2000 HBO miniseries about a Baltimore family's struggle within inner-city drug culture. The miniseries was based on a book by former Sun reporter David Simon, who also created "The Wire," which ended this year.

Clanton has trained at Center Stage and with the Rising Stars Theater Troupe, according to his profile on IMDb, an online movie database.

The actor, who lives in Northeast Baltimore, has had his own encounters with the law.

In August 2006, Clanton pleaded guilty in Baltimore Circuit Court to manufacturing, distributing and dispensing a controlled dangerous substance and other drug-related charges.

He was given a five-year sentence, four years of which were suspended, and he was subsequently placed on three years of supervised probation.

"All of that is behind me," said Clanton, who has a 5-year-old daughter and who says he recently started his own production company, Never Enough Entertainment. "I'm actually moving forward," he said.