Cops in Maryland say a 34-year-old man stabbed his fiancee to death just a week after they decided they were going to tie the knot in what authorities called a "really sad domestic incident."

Rondale Dickerson is accused of killing 44-year-old Shelaya Broadwater at her apartment in Ellicott City, a Baltimore suburb, according to the Howard County Police Department . Police rushed to an apartment around 3 p.m. Thursday in the 3100 block of West Springs Drive. Officers entered and discovered Broadwater dead with multiple stab wounds.

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Dickerson faces charges of first- and second-degree murder , assault and home invasion. Local NBC affiliate WBAL obtain

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