By Rebecca Starcevic, Enterprise staff writer
MIDDLEBORO — A gang of teens attacked a 20-year-old East Sandwich man, stabbing him in the back as he fled through Middleboro center Friday night.
Police arrested three Middleboro teens in connection with the attack.
Phillip Silva, 18, of 6 Pine Tree Drive, Middleboro, was arrested on Friday. He is charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and attempted murder.
Two boys, ages 14 and 16, were also arrested and charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (a shod foot), armed assault with intent to murder and intimidation of a witness.
“It was a joint venture,” said Detective Joseph M. Perkins of the attack.
Middleboro police did not identify the victim pending notification of his family, but reported that he was taken to Morton Hospital in Taunton, and later moved to Brigham and Women's in Boston.
Just before 10 p.m. Friday, the victim, who was stabbed while walking by the Post Office, ran screaming down Center Street holding his bleeding back, said a resident of downtown Middleboro who saw the aftermath of the stabbing from her apartment window.
“There was a whole group of kids he was running from, and no one helped him,” said the resident, who asked not to be identified. “He ran down the street saying 'How could you do this to me?' before he collapsed in front of the church,” she said.
On Saturday afternoon, about 60 yards from the Post Office, a few spots of blood on the sidewalk in front of the Church of Our Savior on the corner of Union Street, were the only sign of Friday night's scuffle in the nearly deserted downtown.
“Where were their parents?” wondered the woman who saw the commotion from her window. “This scares me. I have an 8-year-old daughter.”
Perkins, officer Steven M. Schofield and Deputy James Jepen of Middleboro Police and members of the Plymouth County Sheriff's Department are investigating the incident.
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