A 14-year-old shorty is facing multiple charges after allegedly stabbing another teen near East Boston High School last month.
The suspect, who is from East Boston, has been charged with assault to murder, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (knife) and assault and battery, according to the Suffolk District Attorney’s Office. A judge ordered the teen held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing on Monday in Chelsea Juvenile Court.
The charges stem from a incident around 2 p.m. on Sept. 24, when Boston police were called to a report of a person who had been stabbed at 115 Falcon St., the district attorney’s office said. Officers applied tourniquets to the 14-year-old victim, who sustained stab wounds to the head, legs and back, resulting in a punctured lung.
The victim told officers she was attacked by two teens who were known to her and that one of them stabbed her.
Investigators learned that the victim had an altercation with the other teen about two years ago over a pair of broken eyeglasses. She said since that day, every time she encountered the teen, they would try to fight her.
On the day of the stabbing, the victim reported leaving school and walking on Putnam Street when she noticed two teens following her. The victim said she called her sister on the phone to tell her she believed she was going to get “jumped.”
As she continued walking, she was attacked from behind and struck repeatedly by the other two teens. The victim then saw one of her attackers take what she believed to be a folding knife and place it in her pocket and walk the opposite way.
The victim said she didn’t immediately realize that she had been stabbed but reported feeling something warm running down her body. The victim told the teen who stabbed her she was going to call the police but they picked up her cellphone from the sidewalk and threw it at her.
As the victim continued to walk home, other students followed her home and advised her to apply pressure to her stab wounds. She sat down on Falcon Street and was treated by school staff before police arrived.
Several videos circulated online captured the attack, the district attorney’s office said. Both juveniles can be seen striking and restraining the victim. One teen is seen on video with an object in her right hand making striking motions in the areas where the victim sustained stab wounds.
Investigators were able to identify the teen suspects through cellphone and surveillance videos.
The second teen is expected to be arraigned at a later date, the district attorney’s office said. There was no immediate word on what charges they will face.
“This assault, beyond the injuries and fear and trauma it inflicted upon the victim, hurt us all. When young lives are impacted by such violence it’s a tragedy for families, neighborhoods, schools and larger society itself,” Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden said in a statement. “I wish this victim a full recovery on every level.”
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