BOSTON (Massachusetts, US), May 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A male suspect has been arrested in connection with a stabbing that wounded four girls in a movie theater south of Boston Saturday, authorities said.
It was learned that the same suspect may be responsible for a similar incident which may have occurred at a McDonald’s restaurant in Plymouth.
The Braintree Police Department reported that the man entered the multiplex without a ticket, went into a AMC theater, and then attacked the four girls, ages 9 to 17, unprovoked at about 6 pm. The girls were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
An AMC employee who was working the snack counter at the time of the attack described the suspect as wearing “an oversized trench coat, sunglasses, and a long blonde wig.”
The suspect fled the scene in a black SUV, but police were able to obtain his license plate number using video footage and located him in Plymouth after he was reportedly involved in a “similar assault” there, police said.
The second possible attack may have occurred around 7 p.m. at a McDonald’s restaurant, where a 21-year-old woman and a 29-year-old male were allegedly stabbed. Both victims suffered non-life-threatening injuries and are being treated at a nearby hospital.
Police said it appears the “crimes are related.”
“Preliminary investigation suggests a likely connection to an earlier incident at a movie theatre in Braintree resulting in non-life threatening injuries to four juveniles,” Massachusetts State Police said.
The suspect led Massachusetts State Police on a car chase before crashing in the town of Sandwich, which is located south of Plymouth. He was taken into custody and is being treated at a nearby hospital.
Sources said that the suspect is also believed to be linked to a murder investigation in Deep River, Connecticut. Connecticut police had put out a alert for him earlier Saturday, describing him as armed and dangerous and possibly armed with a 10-inch knife, sources said.
The suspect’s name and the charges he faces were not immediately released. — NNN-AGENCIES
