Report: Baseball Bat and Knife Wielded in Thursday Fight Resulting in Stabbing

A 19-year-old from Malden and a 17-year-old from Medford were arrested in connection to the stabbing.

Two teenagers were arrested Thursday after a fight that sent one victim to the hospital with non-life threatening stab wounds, according to a Somerville police report. According to the report, the fight involved a baseball bat and a knife and broke out at around 3:10 p.m. at the intersection of Gilman Street and Walnut Street. Police arrested 19-year-old Moises Rodriguez, of 380 Ferry St., Malden and 17-year-old Dennys Pereira, of 55 Cushing St., Medford, in connection to the stabbing. The report says a police officer responding to the fight encountered Rodriguez and Pereira near the corner of Virginia and Aldrich streets and that both teens had blood on their clothes, and Rodriguez had a cut on his hand. Meanwhile, police and EMTs were …

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Two Arrested Thursday in Connection to Gilman Street Stabbing

A victim suffered non-life threatening injuries, according to Somerville police.

Two men were arrested Thursday in connection to a stabbing that left a victim with non-life threatening injuries, according to Somerville police. Deputy Chief Paul Upton of the Somerville Police Department, in an email sent Thursday evening, did not provide the identities of the two individuals arrested. The stabbing happened around 3:20 p.m. near 109 Gilman St., according to Breaking News Network, a notification service that monitors police, fire and first-responder scanner transmissions. The victim was stabbed multiple times in the chest and was transported to Massachusetts General Hospital, the Breaking News Network reported—information that has not been confirmed by Somerville Patch. Patch will provide more information on the stabbing …

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Brothers' Fight Leads to Stabbing, Assault to Murder Charge

An altercation between two brothers inside a Pearl Street home led to an alleged stabbing with a kitchen knife.

A Somerville man allegedly stabbed his brother with a kitchen knife after an altercation between the two at a Pearl Street home, leading to his arrest on a charge of armed assault to murder. The victim sustained severe lacerations and was treated for non-life threatening injuries, according to the police report. Police responded on Saturday, Aug. 25 around 3 p.m. to Cambridge City Hospital for a report of a stabbing, where the victim told a detective that 40 minutes earlier, he had gone to his former home on Pearl Street with his girlfriend, where his brother still lived, to pick up some clothes he left behind before he had moved to Lynn. When they arrived at the home, the victim told police that he saw his brother, Jason Laporta, 36, …

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Somerville Man Pleads Guilty, Two More Await Trial in Medford Jogger Stabbing Case

Matthew Haley of Somerville faces 3 to 4 years in prison stemming from the incident.

A Somerville man has pleaded guilty and two others await court dates next week on charges stemming from the stabbing of a jogger on Salem Street in Medford last year. The victim was surrounded by a group of men on St. Patrick's Day 2011 near the intersection of Salem Street and Park Street. He was hit over the head with a bottle and stabbed in what police previously said was a random act of violence. It took nearly a year for some of the suspects to be charged in the incident. One of the suspects, Matthew Haley of Somerville, pleaded guilty in Middlesex Superior Court in June to charges of armed assault to murder, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon causing serious bodily injury and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. He …

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Somerville Painter Allegedly Stabs Other Somervillian in New Hampshire

Police in Manchester, N.H., said the two Somerville residents got into a dispute while working on a painting job at Southern New Hampshire University.

A Somerville man was arrested in Manchester, N.H. and charged with first degree assault Wednesday after allegedly stabbing a fellow Somerville resident in the stomach. According to an announcement from the Manchester Police Department, Jose DaSilva, 55, and a 41-year-old victim were co-workers at a painting company contracted to do some work at Southern New Hampshire University. Police determined the two Somervillians got into a dispute while on the job, the announcement says, and during the dispute DaSilva allegely stabbed the 41-year-old in the abdomen, causing a serious wound. Police responded to the incident at about 10:30 a.m. The victim was transported to Elliot Hospital to receive treatment for his injury, the announcment says.

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Suspect Arraigned in Stabbing of Somerville Man Outside Chelsea Strip Club

The victim spent five days in Massachusetts General Hospital with stab wounds to the head, neck, shoulder and chest.

Jody Lassiter, 49, of Everett, was arraigned in Chelsea District Monday and charged with stabbing a Somerville man about 10 times outside a Chelsea strip club earlier this month, according to an announcement from the Suffolk County District Attorney's office. According to the announcement, Lassiter was a floor man at King Arthur's Lounge, and on May 15 he allegedly got into an argument with a 33-year-old Somerville man in the club. The victim had allegedly arrived at the club after leaving another bar and was visibly drunk and belligerent, the announcement says. According to the announcement, the victim was ejected from the club, and Lassiter is believed to have clocked out and followed the victim outside onto Beacham Street. Police …

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Man Knifed in Union Square, Says Police Report

The attacker allegedly slashed a man's face after harassing him in Union Square's El Potro restaurant, a police report says.

A 26-year-old Somerville man is accused of slashing another man's face with a knife outside a restaurant in Union Square, according to a police report. According to the report, police responded to 59 Union Square at about 11:36 p.m. on Jan. 16 and found the victim kneeling down, his arms covered in blood, holding what appeared to be a paper towel to his right cheek. When he removed the paper towel, police saw he had a six-inch slash on his face, running from his nose to his jawbone, the report says. A witness told police the assailant had fled down Washington Street and taken a right on Hawkins Street, according to the report, which says police brought the alleged attacker, Jose Roque Miguel-Melgar, into custody at 1 May Place. According …

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Somerville Woman Pleads Guilty to 2008 Stabbing Death

Kimberly Savini stabbed her boyfriend, Arnaldo Amado, shortly after Christmas in 2008.

Somerville Man Stabbed and Wounded at Cambridge Bar

A Malden man is facing charges of assault to murder in the alleged stabbing a Somerville man at Tommy Doyle’s Pub in Harvard Square.

Late Friday night, as staff at Tommy Doyle’s Pub in Cambridge allegedly struggled to break up a fight between two men at the bar, one of the pub’s bouncers who resides in Somerville was stabbed and wounded. Cambridge Police arrived at the Harvard Square bar at roughly 1:50 a.m. Saturday morning and report they found the victim, a 48-year-old Somerville man, seated at the bar and bleeding from his chest. He was alert and informed the officers that while trying to break up a fight in the upstairs bar, a customer had stabbed him near his armpit. According to police, the suspect, later identified as Ricardo Garcia, 23, of 41 Playstead Road, Malden, was subdued by bar staff, including one bouncer who heard the call for help via a staff radio. …

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