AUBURN — A Lewiston woman who left a trail of blood in her wake as she walked from her apartment to a local hospital told police the man who stabbed her in the chest and back shared an apartment with her.

An Androscoggin County grand jury indicted Mark McLaughlin, 51, of 18 Blake St. on a count of attempted murder.

He’s being held without bail at Androscoggin County Jail.

McLaughlin pleaded not guilty last week to the charge. He also was indicted on a charge of aggravated assault and elevated aggravated assault.

Two of the counts are punishable by up to 30 years in prison; the other carries a sentence of up to 10 years in prison.

In a sworn police affidavit, Lewiston Detective Lee Jones wrote that a police officer went to the apartment on Sept. 12 after police got several 911 calls. A worker at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston also called to report a woman who approached another woman near the hospital saying she’d been stabbed.

Officer Scott Hill saw large drops of blood on the stair treads leading up to and in front of McLaughlin’s apartment.

The officer knocked on the apartment door. It was opened by McLaughlin, who wore only dark-colored boxer shorts and held a knife. His face and hands were covered with blood, Hill said.

He ordered McLaughlin to drop the knife three times before he complied. Hill handcuffed McLaughlin in the building’s hallway.

McLaughlin also was injured; he suffered a laceration to the lower abdomen, a puncture wound to the upper chest, a laceration to the upper left eye and multiple abrasions. Paramedics took him to Central Maine Medical Center.

Cathy Mason, 57, told police she was in bed when McLaughlin came into her room and told her: “This is your night to die.” He stabbed her several times before she was able to flee her bed. She struggled with McLaughlin and fled the apartment. In the hallway, McLaughlin pulled her hair to keep her from escaping, she told police. She said she thinks McLaughlin stabbed her in the back as she was heading for the building’s exit.

She wrestled the knife away from McLaughlin as he repeated his threat. When McLaughlin lunged at her, she slashed the knife at him. She left the building as McLaughlin followed, she said. She threw the knife in some tall weeds so that McLaughlin couldn’t use it again to hurt her. She continued to the hospital where she saw a woman standing outside. Mason told the woman she’d been stabbed. Hospital security escorted Mason to the emergency room.

She told police McLaughlin had been drinking before the stabbing.

McLaughlin gave a different account of events.

He told police the two were in bed when Mason began to stab him. He said he took the knife away from her and stabbed her several times. McLaughlin said he kept a large kitchen knife on a bureau beside the bed.

A detective recovered a large kitchen knife in weeds outside the apartment building. He noticed a pool of blood in the side of the bed where Mason said she had lain.

Mason and McLaughlin denied they were boyfriend and girlfriend and said they were not involved in a sexual relationship.