Man randomly stabs teenage girl in Dollar Tree as she stood with her mother: Police

The fishy past "stayed connected segment successful nan foyer staring astatine nan victim."

A 31-year-old Massachusetts man has been arrested aft a “random and unprovoked” stabbing onslaught connected a teenage woman arsenic she stood pinch her mother astatine a Dollar Tree store, constabulary said.

The onslaught took spot astatine astir 12:38 p.m. connected Thursday erstwhile constabulary officers from nan Barnstable Police Department were dispatched to a Dollar Tree shop successful Hyannis, Massachusetts, to a study of a stabbing, according to a connection from nan Barnstable Police Department connected Thursday.

According to witnesses, 31-year-old Nikolas Rescigno of Hyannis, Massachusetts, reportedly “approached nan juvenile female from down successful nan foyer of nan shop and without informing stabbed her successful nan little backside arsenic she stood adjacent to her mother,” authorities said.

“Rescigno is chartless to nan unfortunate and this onslaught appears to beryllium random and unprovoked,” nan Barnstable Police Department said. “Also, according to nan witnesses, Rescigno stayed connected segment successful nan foyer staring astatine nan unfortunate and yet dropped nan weapon upon petition from a bystander.”

A 31-year-old Massachusetts man has been arrested aft a “random and unprovoked” stabbing onslaught connected a teenage woman arsenic she stood pinch her mother astatine a Dollar Tree store, constabulary said.

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Barnstable Police Officers were capable to return Rescigno into custody without further incident.

The unnamed teenage unfortunate was transported to a section infirmary by Barnstable Fire Department Rescue unit and is presently being treated for non-life-threatening injuries.

Rescigno was booked and charged pinch battle and artillery pinch a vulnerable limb pinch superior bodily wounded and an further outstanding warrant for failing to look successful tribunal from different incident involving a weapon astatine nan Cape Cod Mall successful May 2023.

Bail for Rescigno was group by nan bail magistrate astatine $5000 and he is scheduled to beryllium arraigned successful Barnstable District Court connected Friday.

The investigation into nan onslaught is presently ongoing.