Roxbury party ends with face stabbing, shots fired

Boston Police report somebody was stabbed in the face around 3 a.m. today at a party at 312 Warren St.

Police say a friend of the victim, Curtis Preston, 21, of Cambridge, took exception and fired off 10 to 12 rounds - without hitting anybody - before fleeing with some pals in a car.

Police say officers in the neighborhood heard the shots and responded just in time to see a car leaving the vicinity rather abruptly:

[O]fficers pulled up behind the car with lights and sirens in an attempt to further investigate by conducting a traffic stop. The car failed to stop for officers but rather just kept going with officers following closely. Officers remained behind the car and while following the car observed a black object drop out of the rear passenger side window followed by the sound of a metal object striking the ground.

They eventually got the car to stop on Rockland Street - as other officers retrieved the gun that had been thrown out - police say, adding Preston told them he had to leave because "my boy [has] been stabbed, I have to get to the hospital to see him." Police say officers told him he wasn't going anywhere. After interviewing witnesses, Preston was arrested on charges of unlawful possession of a firearm, unlawful possession of a loaded firearm, unlawful possession of ammunition, discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a dwelling, four counts of assault by means of a dangerous weapon, malicious destruction of property over $250 and tampering with the identifying number of a firearm.

Police did not say if somebody was also arrested for the stabbing.

Innocent, etc.