Five officers have been injured in Taunton final evening after a knife-wielding man allegedly attacked officers making an attempt to subdue him following a chaotic sequence of occasions that began with a site visitors cease and ended with a crash right into a home, and the alleged assault.
One officer was flown to a Boston hospital with severe slash wounds to the face and again of his head, a second officer was handled on the hospital for knife wounds. Taunton’s police chief was handled for a stab wound at Morton Hospital and two further officers have been handled for accidents sustained within the mayhem.
The suspect, who stays unnamed, is hospitalized and can face felony costs, in keeping with police.
Police initially encountered the suspect when he pulled alongside an unrelated site visitors cease at about 6:45 p.m. on County Street and commenced shouting at officers.
The suspect sped off and police didn’t comply with him.
However, one other officer noticed the suspect driving erratically in his grey 2010 Honda Accord and pulled him over. The suspect fled the cease, practically hitting an officer approaching the automotive, and sped off, in keeping with police.
Officers pursued the suspect till he crashed right into a multifamily home on West Britannia Street. Police later decided the suspect crashed into the home he lived in.
As officers approached and tried to arrest the suspect, he got here out brandishing a knife, waving it wildly and slashing two officers, in keeping with police.
Taunton’s police Chief, Edward Walsh, who lives close by, responded. Walsh was stabbed within the torso, however he was capable of get his Taser out and Tase the the suspect, permitting officers to shut in and place the suspect beneath arrest, in keeping with police.
The suspect is understood to police, who stated there’s no additional hazard to the general public. He’ll be booked on the Taunton Police station on a number of felony costs, in keeping with police.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”