A homeless man with a “violent criminal past” allegedly stabbed two Boston park rangers who approached him on Boston Common Tuesday, lunging at them in an unprovoked and wild attack that left one ranger in critical condition at Massachusetts General Hospital, police officials said. Commissioner William Evans said Tuesday night that a 46-year-old ranger sergeant is in surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital with life-threatening injuries. He said a 23-year-old ranger new to the service is in stable condition at Tufts Medical Center with less serious wounds. But he was stabbed right in the central stomach, and it was bloody, it was bleeding, his whole torso was covered in red. Evans said Bodio Hutchinson attacked the unarmed rangers in what the commissioner said was an unprovoked confrontation at about 4:30 p.m. Evans said witnesses followed the suspect and provided cellphone video to police. Evans said Hutchinson will probably face at least two counts of attempted murder, in addition to the outstanding charges of assaulting a police officer, and drug charges.
– A Boston park ranger suffered life-threatening injuries after being stabbed on the Boston Common this afternoon, reports the Boston Globe. Another ranger was injured in the attack inside what the AP calls the nation's oldest public park. Police say a homeless man with a "very violent, assaultive" history lunged at the pair with a knife when they approached him as he sat by a statue. Authorities identified the suspect as Bodio Hutchinson, 34. The rangers haven't been identified. The more seriously injured one, who was stabbed in the abdomen, is 46. The other is 23. Police said witnesses followed the suspect and helped identify him with cellphone video. Officers found the knife believed used in the attack in a pond.