14-year-old charged with stabbing juvenile close to East Boston Excessive

A 14-year-old has been charged with assault to homicide after leaping and stabbing a fellow teen on her method house from faculty in late September, Suffolk County DA Kevin Hayden introduced Sunday.

“This assault, beyond the injuries and fear and trauma it inflicted upon the victim, hurt us all,” stated Hayden. “When young lives are impacted by such violence it’s a tragedy for families, neighborhoods, schools and larger society itself. I wish this victim a full recovery on every level.”

The East Boston teen was arraigned in Chelsea Juvenile Court docket on costs of assault to homicide, assault and battery with a harmful weapon, and assault and battery in relation to the September incident by which a highschool pupil sustained stab wounds to the pinnacle, legs, and again, inflicting a punctured lung.

The defendant was ordered held with out bail pending a dangerousness listening to.

A second teen concerned within the alleged assault is predicted to be arraigned at a later date. The DA didn’t state what costs they could be face.

Round 2 p.m. on Sept. 24, Boston police responded to studies of an individual stabbed close to East Boston Excessive Faculty at 115 Falcon St.

The sufferer, 14, was leaving the varsity and strolling down Putnam Avenue when she observed two figures following her, in keeping with the DA’s workplace.

The younger woman advised investigators she had an altercation with one of many juveniles two years in the past over “a pair of broken eyeglasses,” the discharge states. Ever for the reason that incident, she stated, the defendant would attempt to struggle the sufferer each time they bumped into each other.

On her stroll, the sufferer stated she known as her sister to inform her she thought she was going to be jumped, the DA’s workplace stated. She was then allegedly attacked from behind and struck repeatedly by each of the kids following her.

Earlier than they walked away, the scholar stated she noticed one take what a folding knife and put it in her pocket, the discharge stated. The sufferer stated she advised her attacked she was going to name the police, and so they picked up her cellphone and threw it at her.

The sufferer advised police she didn’t know she was stabbed however felt “something warm running down her body.” She sustained stab wounds to the pinnacle, again and leg, the DA’s workplace stated.

The woman continued to stroll house, however different college students adopted her and “advised her to apply pressure to her stab wounds,” the DA stated. She sat on Falcon St. and acquired therapy from faculty employees till police arrived.

The responders utilized tourniquets to the accidents, the discharge states, and the woman advised them she knew her attackers.

The DA stated a number of movies posted on-line captured the assault, by which each teenagers will be seen restraining and hitting the sufferer. One of many defendants is allegedly caught with an object in her proper hand “making striking motions in the areas where the victim sustained stab wounds.”