Woman charged in fatal stabbing of family member in Ayer

AYER, Mass. — A 26-year-old woman was charged after a fatal stabbing involving a 24-year-old family member, according to Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan.

Ryan and Ayer Police Chief William Murray addressed reporters, and said the stabbing occurred on Groton School Road Friday afternoon.

Ayer Police responded to the incident shortly after 1 p.m. Friday afternoon, and found a 24-year-old Ayer man suffering from an apparent stab wound to the torso.

"Yeah it sounded really bad," Corey Robinson, a neighbor at the next building, said. "I just heard a woman screaming and a man screaming, but it was mostly a man screaming his life was being taken."

The man was taken to Nashoba Valley Medical Center where he later died.

Ryan said an investigation showed the man was in an altercation inside an apartment on Groton School Road with a 26-year-old woman from Ayer who was known to him. During the altercation, the woman allegedly stabbed the man with a large kitchen knife.

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"The victim and the suspect are related by blood," Ryan said.

Police would not say how they're related, and right now it's unclear how it started.

Meanwhile, Robinson, who just moved to the area, said what happened is unnerving.

"I moved here so it would be a safer place for me and my kids," Robinson said. "I moved from Lawrence, and so this was really unexpected today."

The woman was detained at the scene and charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon causing serious bodily injury.

She will be arraigned on October 1.

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