Suffield Inmate Charged in Connection With Bolton Stabbing

BOLTON, CT — A man currently incarcerated in a Suffield prison was charged Wednesday in connection with a violent assault and stabbing of an acquaintance he was attempting to rob in late February, state police said.

Daniel Duffy, Jr., 36, an inmate at the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution on Route 159, was charged with first-degree assault and criminal attempt to commit first-degree robbery in connection with the Feb. 28 attack on Tunxis Trail in Bolton.

Bond was set at $500,000.

A state police report says troopers were called to the area late that afternoon for a reported stabbing that had occurred in the roadway. A 50-year-old male victim was found suffering from multiple stab wounds in and around his torso, head and face, and he underwent surgery at Hartford Hospital for non-life threatening injuries.

The victim told police an acquaintance, later identified as Duffy, had driven him from East Hartford to Bolton, then struck the victim in the head with a tire jack and repeatedly stabbed him during an attempted robbery. Duffy fled the scene, leaving the victim bleeding in the roadway, the report said.

Members of the Connecticut State Police Eastern District Major Crime Squad conducted an extensive investigation, which led to a warrant application for Duffy's arrest.

Duffy, who is on parole from a 2008 conviction for armed robbery in Hartford, was convicted of third-degree identity theft on June 13, 2017, and sentenced to a year in prison, suspended after six months, according to judicial records.

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