EAST LONGMEADOW, Mass. (WGGB) — A Springfield man is facing charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon after police say he slashed the face of another man following a verbal altercation outside the Meadows Lounge in East Longmeadow today.
52-year-old, Jose Antonio Rivera and another man got into a confrontation around 3:00 p.m. Monday in the parking lot of the Meadows Lounge on North Main Street following a family function. The argument escalated from verbal to physical when Rivera allegedly slashed the victim’s face with a box pipe razor.
That’s according to Police Sergeant, Jeffrey Dalessio.
The victim, whose name is not being released by police at this time, was rushed to Bay State Hospital with a serious wound that needed stitches. Dalessio says he is expected to recover though.
Rivera is being charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and is being held on a $20,000 cash bond and will appear in Palmer District Court on Tuesday.
We should ban assault box cutters
Typical
There should be no bail. He should stay in jail until his trial. He will disappear if he is let out on bail.
An earlier story said his girlfriend was involved in an altercation and this guy was attacked from behind. Let’s get the correct story.
Definitely Adam! And assault hammers at the same time please…might as well just do it all at once?
French, Dutch, Polish ?
@robn No, No & No.
What does it matter where he’s from you? I get your little passive aggressive racism but race has nothing to do with some idiot slashing another man’s face open with a box cutter. Get a life you inbred closet racists.
Kenny seems to think he’s Hispanic.
nice family jajajaja
I wonder where Adam Lanza and James
Holmes are from hmmmm……..
Bottom line it doesn’t matter… Dumb a$$!!