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Four tourists injured near Boston Common after verbally intervening in road rage incident

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Four men visiting Boston on Thursday night trying to calm an incident of road rage near Boston Common were injured when they were attacked by two participants in the traffic dispute, Boston police said.

At about 11:50 p.m., the four men were returning to their hotel after dinner in the North End when they noticed an ongoing verbal argument between two groups of people, some of whom were in a vehicle that had stopped near the Park Street MBTA station at Tremont Street, police wrote.

“The victim and his circle of friends stated they tried to intervene by telling them to stop,” police wrote.

In response, some people left the car and “began fighting with the group of friends. In the first fight, the victim … was punched in the face, resulting in injuries,” police wrote.

The tourists and the men who got out of the car pushed and shoved each other until they reached the entrance of Park Street Station and one of the men in the car “brandished a large knife,” police wrote.

At that point, the tourists continued walking through the Common toward their hotel and the other people returned to the car, police wrote. But when the tourists reached Brewer Fountain, the man with the large knife and a second man caught up with the tourists, police wrote.

“Another fight breaks out,” police wrote.

During the second altercation, one man was stabbed in the left side of his abdomen and another was stabbed in the left hand. Both were taken to an unnamed hospital for further treatment, police said.

The fourth tourist told police at the scene that he believed he had broken his right wrist but refused medical treatment at the hospital, police wrote.

The names of the men and the hotel where they were staying were redacted in the police report.

The investigation is ongoing. No arrests have been made.

John R. Ellement can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him @JREbosglobe.

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