Boston man accused of stabbing man during motorcycle theft, beating girlfriend’s dog
A man accused of stabbing a man multiple times while attempting to steal his motorcycle and then days later beating his girlfriend’s small dog against a wall faces a dangerousness hearing Wednesday morning.
“We request dangerousness hearings only when an individual’s conduct presents an imminent or ongoing threat to the community, which is clearly the case here,” Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden said in a statement. “Thankfully the injuries to the people and the dog in these incidents are non-life threatening. But the psychological trauma of attacks is always something we’re concerned about.”
Abram Acevedo, 31, of Boston, was charged July 2 with attempted murder, witness intimidation, and two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon — a knife and a broom. His arrest came the day after his girlfriend said that he beat her Shih Tzu dog against a wall and then grabbed a broom “and gestured as if to hit her” before the girlfriend got away, according to the DA.
Judge Steven Kim, of Boston Municipal Court’s Roxbury division, ordered Acevedo held without bail ahead of the dangerousness hearing during Wednesday morning’s session.
The charges against Acevedo reach back to June 24 when police found a man “bleeding heavily down his left side” while they were driving by Bromley Heath housing development. When they stopped, according to the DA’s office, officers saw that the man had “multiple stab wounds” to the bleeding arm. The victim, 49, told police a man attacked him while trying to steal his motorcycle, which the thief then abandoned in a walkway.
A week later, on July 1, Acevedo’s girlfriend called police and told them that he got upset, grabbed her dog by the back of the neck and then shook the dog several times before slamming it into a wall, causing the dog to vomit. The girlfriend also alleged that Acevedo grabbed a broom and looked like he was going to hit her with it before she fled, according to the DA.
This wasn’t the first time Acevedo had been violent, she said, and that he had threatened her in the past and had even tried to bite her face, according to the statement.
She also said he told her he did “something bad on Centre Street last week.”