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BARNSTABLE, MASS. (WHDH) – A 24-year-old was charged with stabbing his 62-year-old father in Centerville on Cape Cod Tuesday and committed to Bridgewater State Hospital Wednesday, officials said.
Ygor Barboza was arraigned Wednesday on charges of armed assault to murder, assault and battery on a person over 60, and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon on a person over 60, according to the Barnstable Police Department.
At around 3:50 p.m. Tuesday, Barnstable police responded to a house on Old Stage Road after Barboza allegedly stabbed his father with a large kitchen knife six to ten times, police said.
A bus driver stopped to help Barboza’s father and emergency crews flew him by helicopter to a Rhode Island hospital with life-threatening injuries, according to police. He is expected to survive.
“The wounded individual was able to tell the police that it was his son that had stabbed him,” prosecutor Robert Hofmann said in court Wednesday.
Officers said Barboza ignored commands to drop the knife and …
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