Four are arrested in connection with stabbings; Police suggest one of two victims owed money
Firefighters treat a stabbing victim July 10 in Central Square.
Four people are in police custody and have been named as suspects in a late-evening double stabbing in Central Square on July 10. Police said Monday that they aren’t looking for anyone else in connection with the crime.
In announcing the arrests of four people Monday in the Central Square area – one unhoused and the others from Chelsea or Boston – police named charges that suggest what was behind the stabbings: Two of the suspects are charged with assault and battery to collect a loan and armed robbery, implying that the victim owed money and that the attempt to collect it was nearly fatal. “The motives for the stabbings are believed to involve a debt regarding drugs/money owed,” said Pauline Wells, police deputy superintendent.
That victim was stabbed twice in one day. The first was at around 4 a.m. 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, after which he came to a hospital emergency room, was treated and left late Sunday morning while refusing to answer police officers’ questions. The second was at 8 p.m. by McElroy Park at Western Avenue and Franklin Street, in Riverside just south of Central Square. A friend was stabbed with him when trying to stop the second assault. One victim made it as far as that 7-Eleven; the other collapsed about a block away.
“Fortunately, neither of the stabbings proved to be fatal, and both victims are expected to recover,” said John W. Boyle, deputy superintendent of night operations for the Cambridge police.
Since July 10, police have been “working closely with residents, businesses and other community partners” to investigate the stabbings, Boyle said.
The suspects named by police, all expected to be arraigned Tuesday in Cambridge District Court, are:
Jahhiaha Carr, homeless, charged with assault with intent to murder; armed robbery; assault and battery with a dangerous weapon; and assault and battery to collect a loan.
Hulbert Desanges of Boston, charged with two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon; two counts of armed assault with intent to murder; and assault with a dangerous weapon.
Dakari Henderson of Boston, charged with armed assault with intent to murder; and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
Talia Jackson of Chelsea, charged with armed robbery; armed assault with intent to murder; assault and battery with a dangerous weapon; assault and battery to collect a loan; and carrying a dangerous weapon.
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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
Maybe Mr. Hamid is right when he says “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.” That money should have gone into housing the homeless instead of into the pockets of the social activists or ostensible do-gooders. After the people are housed then give them the services they need to help them retain their housing. Elizabeth