South Boston man allegedly punches pedestrian in ‘unprovoked’ assault downtown
Police said the victim did not know his assailant.
A South Boston man was arrested Saturday after he allegedly punched a stranger in the face downtown in what authorities are calling an “unprovoked” assault. Luis Andino, 25, is facing charges of assault and battery causing bodily injury and resisting arrest, according to Boston police. Officers responded to a report of an assault near 1 Franklin St. in Boston around 1:37 a.m. on Saturday. Police said upon arriving on the scene, officers found a man “covered in blood, suffering from a deep laceration on his forehead.” The man told police that he and a woman were walking on Washington Street toward Summer Street when an unknown man approached them and punched him in the face. The attacker fled the area, pursued by the woman who witnessed the assault. Police said officers searched the area for the suspect in the assault, and he was located a “short time” later near the Chinatown T station. “Upon being positively identified as the suspect, the male became increasingly agitated and began to violently struggle with officers, kicking and thrashing his body while inside the rear of the patrol wagon,” police said. “Eventually, officers were able to secure the male who was transported to the station where he refused to be booked.”Andino was expected to be arraigned Monday in Boston Municipal Court.
