Man was stabbed in two incidents on a single day, police say; friend was stabbed trying to intervene
The aftermath of a stabbing victim being rushed to a hospital is seen late Sunday at a Central Square 7-Eleven.
Two Sunday stabbing victims remain in the hospital, police say, one now in stable condition and the other still in critical condition – maybe because that man was in two separate stabbing incidents within one day.
In the first case, police found the man at a Cambridge hospital with stab wounds at around 4:40 a.m. Sunday after he arrived at the emergency room. “He was not cooperative with us and did not tell us where it took place or when it took place. But he was obviously stabbed,” said Jeremy Warnick, director of communications and media relations for Cambridge police, in a Monday call.
He was released late Sunday morning, “and then stabbed again last night,” Warnick said.
The first time he was stabbed was after a 4 a.m. Sunday fight at Massachusetts Avenue and Pleasant Street in Central Square – near the 7-Eleven at 750 Massachusetts Ave. that’s across the intersection from City Hall. The next time he was with a friend, but that didn’t keep him safe. He was stabbed the second time when they encountered two or three men at McElroy Park, at Western Avenue and Franklin Street, in Riverside just south of Central Square, and the friend was stabbed when he tried to prevent it.
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After the 8 p.m. stabbing in the park, one of the victims made it all the way back to the 7-Eleven at 750 Massachusetts Ave., coincidentally the scene of the 4 a.m. stabbing. He first tried to get into the nearby Cantab Lounge, where he was turned away, said one person on the scene. The other victim made it only a block north from the park, to 5 Western Ave., which houses the Community Learning Center, before being found and then taken to a hospital by first responders.
People who spoke with police said two or three possible suspects were seen running in the opposite direction toward River Street after the stabbings, police said. No arrests have been made as of Monday afternoon. An investigation remains ongoing, police said.
When police were seen at 8 a.m. Sunday in front of the Walgreens at 625 Massachusetts Ave., that was for cleanup from the violence that happened two blocks west a few hours earlier. “We did locate trails of blood – we believe he was stabbed in one location and ended up moving to a different location,” Warnick said. “It looks [the Department of Public Works] was probably trying to clean up the blood on the sidewalks.”
The stabbing victims are both in their 20s; whether they are homeless is “a little bit of a gray area,” as both have addresses where they stay but spend more time on the streets, Warnick said.
Each had multiple stab wounds. For the man stabbed a second time, it was “more severe” at 8 p.m. than when first stabbed at 4 a.m., Warnick said,
Though the man who was stabbed twice was able to walk away from the first incident quickly, “it’s going to be a little bit of a longer recovery this time around. But the prognosis is better than initially expected,” Warnick said. “We need a lot more cooperation from this person, because clearly they’ve been targeted by someone.”
Lastly, firefighters responded to handle a medical call at the Frank J. Manning public housing apartments at 237 Franklin St. late Sunday. A resident believed it was a stabbing in the building’s front plaza that left a man with a hand injury – part of ongoing issues with unhoused people who occupy it – but Warnick said it was not reported as a knife incident.
Peace Be Unto You
On Friday June 24, 2022 I responded and commented, to the Cambridge Day (CD) article entitled “Drug use and violence among a plaza’s unhoused infiltrates Manning public housing, residents say,” By Nicholas Miller and Marc Levy. In my comment, I stated that
“As long as the powers that be keep spending monies allotted by government agencies,etc.,for the purpose of addressing and eradicating, homelessness on other insignificant purposes. The type of social problems described in the above article will continue, and possibly even get worst. The fault is with the municipal policy makers and administrative leadership.”
The actual blame, its origins and manifestation of the ungodly violent delinquent behavior, reported on by the CD has its spring boards at city hall. What happen to those selected entities and individuals that the checks are being written and cut for, such as those Harvard/MIT, etc., trained social scientist, urban outreach specialist, human service provider entities, conventional and alternative public safety groups, appointed ecumenical task force on police related social problems, mayoral/city council appointed committees, etc., to deal with pressing social problems such as this ungodly violent and sometimes deadly, delinquent behavior and unnecessary bloodshed. Their efforts of preventing violent and deadly social behavior are never apparent. They are getting paid for doing absolutely nothing. God bless the first responders they always do the best that they can.
It is totally unfair to blame the homeless, those with no resources as being the cause of these types of social problems and ungodly delinquent behavior, the city hall is directly responsible for the kindling of this type hell fire. When our municipal policy makers, and other city administrators redirect public funding allocations, designated to improve the domestic conditions of the city’s poor segments of the population to accommodate, other trifling and unnecessary causes, then I say that is the match that ignites and kindles, the ungodly hellfire violent and sometimes deadly delinquent behavior in our midst.
Finally, it saddens me to speculate that the City of Cambridge can anticipate an increase and more of the ungodly violent, and sometimes deadly delinquent social behavior of its highly confused, younger members of the community, if public funding designated to prevent violent, etc., social problems are continuously diverted away in other directions. It is totally criminal and sinful, to deprive poor peoples, especially the homeless in which an overwhelming percentage are black men, women, and children, from government funding, etc., that has been officially designated and allotted to them.
Yours In Peace
Hasson Rashid
Concerned Citizen
Cambridge , MA