Crime & Safety
West Roxbury Academy Stabbing: 15-Year-Old Boy Arrested, Appeared in Court Wednesday
The boy is accused of stabbing his 17-year-old classmate during an altercation in school Wednesday morning.

WEST ROXBURY, MA - A 15-year-old boy was arraigned in Suffolk County Juvenile Court Wednesday after police say he stabbed a fellow student during an exchange in the halls of West Roxbury Academy.
The student faces charges of delinquency, to wit and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
Police were called to West Roxbury Academy at 1205 VFW Parkway around 8:32 a.m. after an alleged altercation in the hallway left a 17-year-old with three stab wounds.
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Police say the victim was taken to Brigham and Women's Hospital with non-life threatening injuries; the suspect was arrested on the scene.
The suspect, a teen from Dorchester, is being held on $50,000 cash bail and has been ordered to stay away from the victim and witnesses, not return to school, remain under house arrest and wear a GPS monitor if bail is posted.
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