Suspect beaten with a baseball bat after alleged armed robbery goes awry

WEYMOUTH, Mass. (MyFoxBoston.com) -- A man was arrested after an alleged armed robbery went awry.

Police say that they responded to an armed robbery report at Rooney's Gas Station on Main Street just past 10:30 a.m. on Monday.

When officers arrived at the scene, they found the robbery suspect being held down bystanders and the gas station attendant, reportedly the owner's son, suffering stab wounds.

Jeramie Goodfellow, 40, had allegedly attacked the clerk with a knife. When a 41-year-old Weymouth man saw what was going on, he grabbed a baseball bat from his car and began to strike the suspect.

"I came around the corner and I see the blood all over the guy's arm and I'm like, 'This guy's gonna kill this clerk,'" said the man who intervened, who wished to remain anonymous. "I hit him in the head once and he didn't go down and that's why I did the second, and when he went down the knife fell out of his hand."

He described a woman who also helped, tending to the clerk's arm and wrapping it up as the anonymous man called 911 on his phone.

Mike Harkins saw that woman from his balcony across the road as she was flagging down traffic. That when he also ran in to help.

Both Goodfellow and the victim were transported to the hospital. Goodfellow was treated for wounds from the baseball bat and the victim was treated for multiple stab wounds to his arm.

Goodfellow pleaded not guilty with assault and battery at his arraignment in his hospital bed. His attorney said his drug addiction was likely a factor in Monday's assault.

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