BOSTON (WHDH) - A suspect was arrested in Allston after police say he stabbed another man in the chest with a box cutter on Saturday.
Officers responding to a call for a person with a knife on Brighton Avenue near CVS around 10:45 a.m. found a man suffering from an apparent laceration to his chest, police said.
He told officers that a suspect had approached him and slashed him with a box cutter for no apparent reason, according to police.
The suspect, Waldeir Pereira, 50, of Allston was positively identified and arrested for assault by means of a dangerous weapon, police said. A box cutter was recovered in the area.
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