Stabbing spree at Taunton home, mall leaves 3 dead, including suspect
An off-duty deputy sheriff shot the suspect inside a Bertucci’s at the Silver City Galleria, police said.
A 28-year-old man went on a violent spree Tuesday evening in Taunton, stabbing two women inside a home and two more people in a Bertucci’s at a local mall, according to Bristol County District Attorney Thomas Quinn.
An 80-year-old woman at the home and a 56-year-old Taunton man in the restaurant at the Silver City Galleria died from their injuries, Quinn said at a press conference Tuesday night.
The suspect, Arthur DaRosa, of Taunton, was shot once by an off-duty deputy sheriff inside Bertucci’s, according to Quinn, and later died at Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River.
“It appears but for the actions of the deputy sheriff, there may very well have been other victims,” Quinn said.
According to authorities, the violence began after DaRosa crashed a car on Myricks Street in Taunton at about 7 p.m. After the crash, he entered a home at 270 Myricks St., where he stabbed the two women, Quinn said.
The surviving victim at the home suffered life-threatening injuries, he said, and was taken to Morton Hospital.
Following the Myricks Street incident, DaRosa drove roughly four miles to the Silver City Galleria and crashed a car into the front of a Macy’s department store, authorities said.
After assaulting three people inside Macy’s, DaRosa went to Bertucci’s, where he armed himself with a knife and stabbed two people before he was shot, according to Quinn. The surviving victim was taken to Morton Hospital with serious injuries, as were the Macy’s victims, who were not stabbed, he said.
At the press conference, Taunton Mayor Tom Hoye also praised the actions of the deputy sheriff.
“If it wasn’t for his heroic actions, there could’ve been more loss of life here this evening,” Hoye said.
“Tragedy certainly hit the city of Taunton hard this evening,” he said.
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