On Monday afternoon, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority officials responded to the Park Street station after receiving a call about a stabbing that occurred on a Red Line train as passengers were boarding in the station on the northbound/inbound platform.
MBTA spokesman Lydia Rivera said in an email that the Transit Police Dispatch were notified about the incident at about 5:15pm by the Red Line Dispatcher. The train was traveling northbound toward Cambridge.
According to Rivera, the incident began in the Government Center station, where the victim and his brother were talking with “two female parties.” The individual suspected of stabbing the victim was apparently unknown to the victim and the suspect, along with the victim and his brother, “all entered the train toward Park Street.”
The suspect, who Rivera described as a Hispanic male in his late 20s, approximately 5-foot-8, heavy set and with “two distinguishing large holes in both his ears,” began to verbally argue with the victim, continuing their disagreement as they went down to the Red Line in Park Street station.
When they entered the train, still arguing, the suspect reportedly pulled a knife on the victim and “sliced the victim and then stabbed him on the left side of his chest,” Rivera said.
After assaulting the victim, the suspect left the train and ran up the stairs in the direction of the Green Line.
EMS personnel as well as MBTA transit police responded to the scene, according to Rivera, and the victim was transported to the Massachusetts General Hospital “with non-life threatening injuries.”
The victim remained conscious and alert after being attacked.
Rivera said that the incident “remains under investigation.”
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