Brookline Police Seek Stabbing Suspect

Brookline, MA – Police are searching for a suspect in a robbery that left one man in the hospital with non-life threatening stab wounds.

Around 9:50 p.m. Wednesday night, police received a call for a robbery in progress on Vernon Street. Upon responding to the scene, officers found an adult male with stab wounds to his upper body. Witnesses told police the suspect fled down Vernon Street heading toward Park Street. 

The victim was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital with non-life threatening wounds. The suspect is described as a black male, approximately 26 years old, clean shaven and wearing dark colored pants and a dark colored puffy jacket or hoodie with a logo on the front.

Brookline Police are actively investigating the incident.

Police in Brookline also made two arrests in unrelated incidents during the night. The first arrest occurred around 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday after two callers who were walking their dogs around Ward's Pond reported that a man was exposing himself.

They told police the suspect, described as a hispanic or latino male, about 5 foot 5 inches tall, 40-50 years old and wearing a navy blue jacket with a stripe across the shoulders and navy blue or black pants, was standing on the path facing them with his zipper down and exposing himself. 

Officers found the man a short distance away and arrested him. He was charged with open and gross lewdness.

A juvenile male from Boston was arrested around 3:45 a.m. Thursday morning after an officer on patrol spotted him in a driveway on Upland Road. Police found that the individual was breaking into cars; following his arrest, officers recovered evidence from a vehicle on Irving Street and one on Juniper Street. 

He faces charges related to breaking into vehicles.