Suspect arrested in Massachusetts stabbing

May 26 (UPI) – The suspect in a stabbing in Massachusetts is charged with assault with intent to murder and two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon after he stabbed two people at a Plymouth restaurant on Saturday, according to police.

Jared Ravizza, 26, was arrested Saturday night but is in the hospital being treated for non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

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Ravizza is believed to be connected to the stabbing attack on four girls at a nearby AMC theater, but no charges have been filed against him.

Prosecutors say Ravizza stabbed a 21-year-old woman and a 28-year-old man, both McDonald’s employees, at a highway rest stop in Plymouth, Massachusetts, before being arrested in the town of Sandwich. Both were taken to the hospital for treatment of their injuries.

Surveillance video footage showed a person believed to be Ravizza stabbing the male employee through the drive-thru window before parking his car, entering the McDonald’s and stabbing the female victim, prosecutors said. They said he fled in the car he was driving after the attacks.

About an hour before the attacks at McDonald’s, the suspected suspect, Ravizza, entered an AMC movie theater in Braintree and allegedly stabbed four girls between the ages of 9 and 17, police said.

“Without saying anything and without warning, he suddenly attacked and stabbed the four young women,” Braintree police said in a statement. “The attack appeared to be unprovoked. After the attack, the man ran out of the cinema and drove away in a vehicle.”

A theater employee described the suspect as wearing “an oversized trench coat, sunglasses and a long blonde wig,” according to CBS Boston. But police later said Ravizza’s hair was real and not a wig.

Police said they arrested Ravizza around 7:15 p.m. Saturday after he fled the theater in a black Porsche SUV. Police were able to track him down using a license plate number they saw on video surveillance footage, which they shared with other law enforcement agencies.

The police linked the vehicle to both stabbings and were able to arrest Ravizza.

Ravizza may also be linked to an investigation into a murder at a home in Deep River, Connecticut, Connecticut State Police said.