BOSTON (WHDH) - Police have identified a person killed after a stabbing early Tuesday morning at a playground in Roxbury.

Officers responding to a report of a person stabbed at Clifford Playground on Massachusetts Avenue around midnight found 48-year-old Michael A. Dezrick suffering from a stab wound, according to Boston police.

Dezrick was transported to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Upon further investigation, 38-year-old Mary Fox was placed under arrest, police said.

Anyone with information is asked to call Boston police homicide detectives 617-343-4470.

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