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louie
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 Posted - 01/15/2007 : 4:17:33 PM
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Malden police have arrested an Everett man in connection with a bloody Belmont Street attack that sent a local woman to the hospital with multiple stab wounds.
Detectives said Thursday that 19-year-old Jamie Quezada “randomly” attacked the 54-year-old victim near her home Tuesday night, leaving her with severe stab wounds on her face, chest and temple. The victim, whose name was ordered impounded by a Malden District Court Judge, was rushed to Massachusetts General Hospital that night, but her injuries were not expected to be life threatening.
Quezada appeared in Malden District Court for a short hearing Wednesday, and is being held without bail pending a Jan. 17 dangerousness hearing. He is charged with assault with intent to murder, assault and battery, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and breaking and entering.
Police said they are looking into the suspect’s involvement with a well-known Everett gang, and also believe he may be in the country illegally.
According to the victim’s statement to police, the attack began after the woman exited her vehicle and walked around to the passenger side door to take her belongings out of the car. The woman said she felt someone walk up behind her, and before she could turn around, the suspect reportedly threw her to the ground and began beating and stabbing her.
Malden Police Detective Lt. Tom Swanson said Quezada allegedly stopped beating the woman when she began to scream, and fled when witnesses called police.
While responding to the call, Malden Police Officer Joe Walker reported he witnessed a man fleeing through back yards on Lowell Street . He exited his cruiser and pursued the suspect on foot. Walker said he briefly lost the suspect, but eventually spotted an open bulkhead on Stevens Street and found Quezada hiding on a set of basement stairs and placed him under arrest.
Police said they have not yet found a weapon, and have no leads on what might have been a motive in this random attack.
“It doesn’t appear that the victim knew her attacker, and we don’t think it was a robbery because the suspect didn’t appear to go after the woman’s purse,” said Lt. Swanson. “There were several neighbors who witnessed the end of the attack, but (witnesses) weren’t really aware of anything until they heard screaming.”
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spinncitycinn
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Posted - 01/15/2007 : 4:20:04 PM
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Well an Everett high football player and his girlfriend were jumped by a gang near Hancock Street this weekend. The bloodied kid and his girlfriend were seen by a group of friends driving by and they picked them up and took them home. No word on whether or not they reported the incident. What is to stop them from going to the high school and doing something? They were not from that gang on Ferry Street either they were MS13.
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Citizen Kane
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Posted - 01/15/2007 : 4:56:57 PM
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Louie, was that article in the Malden paper?
That's a frightening story. It's bad enough when gang members are attacking each other -- and that's not something we want here -- but this was an apparently innocent woman just going about her business.
Seriously . . . what the hell is going on in this city? |
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massdee
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Posted - 01/15/2007 : 5:03:30 PM
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| It's getting really scary to go out alone. I now make sure my car doors are locked when driving. You don't even know who lives in your own neighborhood anymore. |
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EverettsPride
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Posted - 01/15/2007 : 5:08:59 PM
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The kids on Hancock Street were innocent victims too. They did not know their assailants. They were mad because they whistled at the girls and the girls flipped them off.
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EverettsPride
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 Posted - 01/15/2007 : 5:10:19 PM
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We do not qualify for more police if the ilelegals are overwhelming our city and not filling out the census.
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Citizen Kane
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Posted - 01/15/2007 : 5:14:34 PM
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Absolutely, Sally. I didn't mean to imply that the kids on Hancock Street were connected to a gang.
Pretty soon we're all going to be living behind locked doors with bars on the windows. |
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EverettsPride
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Posted - 01/15/2007 : 5:50:03 PM
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My daughter is at work right now and I told her to call me when she is on her way home so we can meet her outside.She is afraid to walk from the car to our house. That is really sad.
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Lynda
Advanced Member
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Posted - 01/15/2007 : 7:11:27 PM
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| Sally... What the hell is going on around here? I have known it was bad, but, this is ridiculous. I was born and raised here and the city really didn't start going to pot until about 5-6 years ago. Why? Is it the illegals? I do believe that we do not have the sufficient police on the streets because they are not in our data base as residence. How are we gonna make this stop? Hanlon says that they have the right to be here as much as we do. Just listen to him cackle on the Ward meetings when the residence complain. It is disgusting. |
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EverettsPride
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Posted - 01/15/2007 : 7:21:49 PM
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I agree this used to be a nice city to raise your kids in. Unfotunately, as long as we do not take these things seriously it is only going to get owrse. The police do all they can do. I have no complaints about them. The city government needs to stand up and do something. Starting with keeping our kids safe in school. It is really sad that I cannot let my kids out of the house without worrying about their safety. I hope something is done about the illegals too. We have no way of knowing what type of people they are. They can be convicted muderers and rapists for all we know. The guy who beat up the lady on Belmont Street is a great example. I hope they deport him and his entire family!!!!!
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Citizen Kane
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Posted - 01/15/2007 : 7:33:58 PM
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It's too easy to try to make illegal immigrants the scapegoats. Do we want to start an atmosphere of hysteria that makes everyone who "doesn't look like he belongs here" a target of the same type of violence we're concerned about here? I'm no bleeding heart liberal, and I'm as frustrated with the immigration situation in this country as the next guy, but we have to be careful on this score. I have many people now living in my neighborhood who "don't look like the rest of us." Am I to assume that they're all here illegally, that they're all drug dealers and criminals? They never bother anyone, they're always very polite, they say good morning, they're not stand offish, as I've heard others complain that some of the immigrants tend to be.
Don't get me wrong . . . I'm not comfortable walking from my driveway to my front door after dark, but I would hate to see us become so suspicious of every "foreign looking" person who walks down the street that we start using them as scapegoats for everything that's wrong in the city. Remember Charles Stewart. It was the prejudice of the day that almost allowed him to get away with murder.
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donice
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Posted - 01/15/2007 : 8:21:01 PM
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What will it take for you apologists for illegal immigration to get it. You can't have 10,000 people living in a city without knowing who they really are, what their background is, that have no stake in the community or loyalty to the country. It creates an atmosphere of chaos that becomes dangerous. Which is where we are now. Wake up. As usual unless it happens to you, it does not get your attention.
I'm one of those people who "looks foreign" and that line of thinking you use is just another excuse for not correcting this problem. A lot of us who "look foreign" and are foreign but are here legally, would like a crackdown on illegal immigration.
Charles Stuart??? Take another sip of whatever you are drinking. I'd like to here a couple of more lines like that one. |
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EverettsPride
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Posted - 01/15/2007 : 8:32:11 PM
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The guy who attacked the woman on Belmont Street, not from this country, possibly illegal. The MS13 gang who beat up the cheerleaders and football players, from El Salvador, most of them illegal. I am not stereotyping, just stating the facts.
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Citizen Kane
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Posted - 01/15/2007 : 8:33:37 PM
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Donice, can you not have a civilized conversation on the subject, or is your opinion the only one that matters?
Not that I need to defend myself to you, but I'm not an apologist for illegal immigration. Yeah, unless it happens to you it's not going to get your attention, so God forbid, someday someone decides to make you a target because you "look foreign", try to remember this "conversation." Tell me something, if I walked past you on the street, would you easily be identified as a "legal" immigrant, or should I just assume by looking at you that you must be here illegally.
You can laugh at the Charles Stewart analogy all you want, but people were all too willing to believe that a black man had shot him and his wife. Talk to some people who lived in Mission Hill at the time . . . |
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Lynda
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Posted - 01/15/2007 : 9:08:58 PM
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| I am not making anyone the escape goat all I am saying is that unless they are legal we can't use them in our census which in turn doesn't allow us to allot for their existence here which in turn denies us the money we need to run our city properly. Did you ever stop and look at how all of a sudden we have all of these diseases popping up that we haven't seen in the US in decades? Where do you think they are coming from? Uhhh maybe other countries! Hello. |
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Citizen Kane
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Posted - 01/15/2007 : 9:20:18 PM
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| I agree, Lynda . . . we do need to get a handle on the immigration situation. That's not the point I'm arguing. All I'm saying is that we can't assume that every problem with drugs and gangs and crime are all being caused by illegal immigrants. It's a slippery slope . . . that's all I'm saying. |
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WE NEED MORE POLICE
