Woman stabbed repeatedly at Miami International Airport. Man faces attempted murder charge

A man is behind bars after police say he stabbed a woman several times and tried to throw her over a railing Saturday night at Miami International Airport.

Alexander Paul Love is being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a first-degree attempted murder charge, jail records show. The 29-year-old was booked into the jail Sunday afternoon.

The woman was attacked “without provocation” just after 11:30 p.m. on the fourth floor of MIA’s Concourse J in the pre-security area, according to police. She was able to escape to the third floor, where officers discovered her and took Love into custody. Investigators say they also located a knife at the scene.

In a news release, police confirmed the woman remained in critical condition at Ryder Trauma Center.

“Detectives are in the process of speaking with the subject, and the investigation continues,” police said Sunday.

Public records show Love, who’s from Ohio, was arrested there on a misdemeanor domestic violence charge in 2016. That case was dismissed shortly thereafter. It’s unclear whether Love now lives in South Florida, though court records indicate he was arrested in Miami-Dade on low-level offenses in 2023.

Amid the initial chaos of the stabbing, police were called to the scene for an alleged active shooter, but that turned out to be a false report.

All passengers in concourses H and J were evacuated and subsequently re-screened, according to a MIA spokesperson. Operations returned to normal around 1:30 a.m.

Anyone with information about this incident should contact Miami-Dade Crime Stopper at 305-471-8477.