Four girls among victims of mass stabbing in Massachusetts, police say

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A knife-wielding man involved in a murder investigation allegedly attacked four girls inside a Massachusetts movie theatre and injured two others at a McDonald’s during a stabbing spree on Saturday.

The attacks started inside the AMC Braintree 10 movie theatre near Boston at 6 p.m., when an armed suspect walked in past the ticket booth without paying.

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The man allegedly stabbed four girls, whose ages ranged from nine to 17, without saying anything, Braintree police said on Saturday night. The girls were taken to Boston-area hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries.

An AMC employee said the man as wearing an “oversized trench coat, sunglasses and a long blond wig,” according to CBS Boston.

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The man fled the multiplex in an SUV and drove about 50 km to Plymouth, Mass., where he was allegedly involved in a “similar assault” at a McDonald’s.

At 7:09 p.m., Massachusetts police responded to the McDonald’s in Plymouth, where they discovered a 21-year-old female and a 29-year-old male suffering from stab wounds.

They were also treated at a hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.

“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,” the Massachusetts State Police said.

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The suspect lead police on a chase before crashing. He was taken into custody and was treated at a hospital.

The suspect is also believed to be linked to a murder investigation in Deep River, Conn.

“At approximately 3:36 p.m., Connecticut State Police responded to a report of a disturbance at an address in the town of Deep River,” police said.

One person was found dead at the scene and a “suspect in this investigation has been taken into custody.”

Connecticut State Police issued an alert earlier on Saturday for the suspect, describing the man as “armed and dangerous” with a 10-inch knife, CBS Boston said.

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