A man armed with a hunting knife stabbed a woman to death Saturday inside a public library in Massachusetts, authorities said.
When police arrived, they found that an elderly man also had been stabbed, Boston’s Fox 25 reported.
“There were three to four police cars here, there was an ambulance and there was a woman taken out,” Russ Ganz, a Winchester resident, told the station.
Neighbors of suspect Jeffrey Yao say they saw warning signs of bad behavior in the past & reported him to police for vandalism. Now he’s charged with murder for stabbing a woman to death inside a public library today. Details at 10PM @boston25 pic.twitter.com/NA1EQQaRgj
— Litsa Pappas (@LitsaPappas) February 25, 2018
The suspect — identified as Jeffrey Yao, 23 — allegedly approached the 22-year-old woman from behind as she was seated at a table in the reading room of Winchester Public Library, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said.
The blade was said to be 10 inches long and the suspect reportedly stabbed the woman multiple times.
During the attack, the young woman suffered injuries to her head and upper torso, Ryan said. As she struggled toward the door, onlookers reportedly tried to help her escape.
A 77-year-old man who tried to help the woman was also injured in the attack, suffering a non-life-threatening stab wound to an arm, Ryan said.
Authorities have opened an investigation into the attack and were working to determine a motive, a news release from the district attorney’s office said.
It wasn’t clear if Yao knew the woman, but the suspect was “known to police,” Ryan said. The woman’s identity was being withheld until her family could be notified, she added.
The suspect was charged with murder and armed assault with intent to murder, the news release said. He was being held without bail and was expected to appear in court Monday.
Got to rid our society of knives anything over 1 1/2 inches.
Got to have a permit or be a licensed chef 🙂
At which point do the sheeple realize that evil can not be legislated out of existence.
But let us not loose a good crisis ~ to pass more laws ~ never mind that we
do not enforce the ones already on the books we need more.
I am so glad we got rid of all the Saturday night specials ~ anybody remember them ?
Rage Against The Machine song Bulls on Parade lyrics.
“The suspect — identified as Jeffrey Yao, 23 — allegedly approached the 22-year-old woman from behind as she was seated at a table in the reading room of Winchester Public Library,…”
“It wasn’t clear if Yao knew the woman, but the suspect was “known to police,”
I suspect Big Pharma may have struck again.
No rhyme or reason to this one.
was that one of those ASSAULT knives?
The old guy should have pulled out his concealed carry, and….oh that’s right… it’s Massachusetts. Too bad…..
I see it now ban on butter knives