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.
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