Boston Police report arresting two men for a triple stabbing at 20 Dustin St. in Brighton around 4:30 this morning.
Two of the victims are expected to survive, but one has life-threatening injuries, police say.
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By adamg - 11/19/08 - 6:52 pm
Boston University Police report somebody was held up at knifepoint at Comm. Ave. and Deerfield St. around 11:30 p.m. yesterday.
By adamg - 11/18/08 - 7:14 pm
Boston Police arrested a Dorchester man this morning for slicing up a guy whom he bumped into him on the stairs at Dorchester District Court this morning:
[O]fficers learned that the victim was walking inside the Dorchester District courthouse when an individual physically bumped into him in the stairwell. According to the victim, words were briefly exchanged, but the individual thought nothing of it as he exited the courthouse. However, once outside, the victim states that the same individual ran up to him and cut him in the face with what appeared to be a knife. Victim says the suspect then fled (on foot) down Tremlett Street.
Brock Randolph, 21, was found and charged with assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon and mayhem, police say.
Innocent, etc.
By adamg - 11/14/08 - 12:51 pm
Boston Police report a woman who resisted a mugger early this morning was stabbed in the neck, throat and hands.
Police say the woman was walking near 1651 Washington St. (near E. Concord Street) around 4:30 a.m. when she was approached from behind by a man who asked her for a cigarette:
The victim stated that when she turned around, the suspect attempted to take the money that she had in her hand and her backpack from her. The victim reported that when she resisted the suspect's attempts to rob her he started stabbing her.
Around 5:08 a.m., police say, they spotted a man matching her description at Harrison Avenue and E. Lenox Street. When they questioned him, they found blood on his collar and sleeve. Police say they arrested him and brought him to Boston Medical Center, where the victim said she was "200% sure" that the guy, Willie A. Jenkins, 41, of Dorchester, was the man who attacked her. Jenkins was then charged with assault with intent to murder and armed robbery.
By adamg - 11/4/08 - 4:57 pm
Kimya Foust today pleaded guilty to manslaughter for the stabbing death of Walter Jackson, Jr. in his Harold Street apartment two years ago following a days-long crack and heroin binge.
By adamg - 11/2/08 - 10:59 pm
Boston Police report arresting a man who lunged at a woman crossing the Cambridge Street footbridge by the turnpike last night:
The victim reported that the suspect appeared to be looking at her as she approached his location on the bridge. The victim reported that as she neared the suspect, he lunged at her, swiping at her and attempted to take hold of her. The victim was able to evade the suspect, and fled from the area.
By adamg - 9/29/08 - 10:30 pm
Boston Police report arresting William Mejia, 18, of Roxbury, on charges of armed assault with intent to rob and assault by means of a dangerous weapon (a knife), after he allegedly tried to hold a man up outside the Jackson Square T stop around 8:30 p.m. yesterday.
According to police, the man was walking home when Mejia rode up to him on a bike, asked to use his cell phone and, when the victim refused, pulled a knife on him and demanded the phone. The man, however, managed to get back into the T stop to call police without being sliced.
Innocent, etc.
By adamg - 8/31/08 - 3:38 pm
Boston Police report arresting a Charlestown man on charges he tried to carve up four teenagers at Commercial and Hull streets around 1 this morning.
By adamg - 8/4/08 - 12:18 pm
Boston Police report finding a man stabbed in the chest at 311 Geneva Ave. in Dorchester shortly after 11:30 yesterday morning:
On scene, officers also observed a young female sitting in a chair inside the store crying with blood on the side of her face. Based on the appearance of this young woman, officers believed her to be the victim of the assault also and asked her what happened. The young woman responded to officers and stated, "I stabbed him." Officers immediately stopped all questioning and administered Miranda warnings to the suspect and again asked her what happened. The suspect then told officers, "I was trying to rob him, and I panicked and stabbed him."
They then took the 15-year-old away to be charged with attempted armed robbery and assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon. The victim was taken to Boston Medical Center and is expected to survive, police say.
By adamg - 8/1/08 - 4:23 pm
File this under: Yeesh. Boston Police report an argument at Stella Restaurant, 1525 Washington St., turned ugly last night when one patron stabbed another diner in the chest with a butter knife - and then continued the fight outside, where he really tried to put the hurt on the guy. It all started around 10:50 p.m.:
Staff members at the restaurant broke up the fight without realizing that the suspect had used a butter knife as a weapon. Believing the altercation to be over, the staff escorted suspect from the premises and left him on West Brookline Street.
Soon after, the victim left the bar, where he encountered the suspect a second time. Another altercation broke out, in which the victim was punched, thrown to the ground, and kicked by the suspect. During the struggle, a nearby motor vehicle's windshield was smashed.
Cleon Tagaris, 38, was arrested on charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and assault and battery, police say, adding the victim was treated and released at Boston Medical Center.
Innocent, etc.
By adamg - 7/30/08 - 8:35 am
Boston Police report arresting David Copeland, 29, on charges he stabbed another man to death at 101 Dale St. in Roxbury yesterday afternoon.
By adamg - 7/17/08 - 8:58 pm
Boston Police report that Luther Boyd, 42, ended a lengthy argument with his brother-in-law by plunging a knife into him around 4 p.m. yesterday at 142 Harwood St.:
Officers spoke to a witness who reported that the two men, the suspect and the victim who are brothers-in law, had been arguing for most of the week and the argument escalated into a physical fight on this day.
By adamg - 7/10/08 - 1:31 pm
Because if you do the former, you might get stabbed and if you do the latter, you might get arrested, we learn from this week's South End News police blotter.
By adamg - 7/7/08 - 5:34 pm
You'd think if you'd just held up some guy at knifepoint in the Public Garden, you might want to get away from the area fast. Boston Police report, however, that when they arrived, they took the victim for a ride in a cruiser - and that they promptly spotted the trio - two of them 16 and one 15 - near the Common. All three arrested and charged with armed robbery.
By adamg - 7/6/08 - 11:50 pm
Boston Police report around 1 p.m. yesterday, a couple was standing outside the Boylston Street Burger King when:
[T]he suspect approached them and mumbled something inaudible. The suspect then pulled what they though to be a silver knife from his pocket and raised it to one of their necks. The victims, at that time fearing for their lives, and believing that they were being robbed took the money that they had in their pockets and dropped it to the ground. The suspect then took the money and fled from the scene.
Jerry Savory, 53, of Jamaica Plain, arrested and charged.
Innocent, etc.
By adamg - 6/17/08 - 3:12 pm
The Herald reports the bike-riding teen, 16, was stabbed in the stomach, collapsed in front of his Almont Street home, was rushed to a local hospital.
By adamg - 6/15/08 - 12:04 pm
Boston Police report a man was stabbed in the men's room at the Cask 'n Flagon around 1:30 this morning:
According to witnesses, they observed a male suspect (5'07", light skinned black male wearing a light green shirt, jeans and sneakers) run out of the bar holding a small knife. Witnesses further stated that the suspect appeared to have blood on his hands.
The victim was taken to Brigham and Women's for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.
By adamg - 6/10/08 - 9:31 pm
Boston Police report finding a woman, 56, dead of multiple stab wounds at 73 Nonantum St. around 2:30 p.m. today.
Luis A. Marquez, 26, of Brighton, who was still at the scene when police arrived, was arrested. He will be arraigned on a charge of murder tomorrow in Brighton District Court. Police say Marquez and the victim knew each other.
By adamg - 6/1/08 - 5:07 pm
289 E. 8th St. around 11 p.m. yesterday: Curtis Ashford, 24, found with multiple stab wounds, pronounced dead at Boston Medical Center.
UPDATE: Three men charged for his stabbing death.
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