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A man has been arrested for allegedly stabbing four girls in an AMC movie theater south of Boston Saturday, authorities said.
Police said the man entered the Braintree multiplex around 6 PM without a ticket, went into a theater, and then unprovoked.attacked the girls, ages 9 to 17. The girls were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
CBS Boston reports that the same suspect may be responsible for a similar incident later at a McDonald’s restaurant in nearby Plymouth.
“It’s so heartbreaking that’s what I’ll be thinking about the rest of the night is seeing those kids coming down the steps and just crying. They looked really stunned like they just saw a horror movie, not a kid’s movie,” said Matteo Rojas to the Associated Press, who was at the theater at the time of the stabbing.
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.
CBS Boston reports that 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.
Massachusetts State Police were involved in a car chase with the suspect before he crashed in the town of Sandwich, which is located south of Plymouth. He was taken into custody and is being treated at a nearby hospital.
The suspect’s name and the charges he faces were not immediately released.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
