Use your utensils next time, please!

[her209]

Thanks.

 

[cavemanmoron]

stab him! 🙁

 

[dighn]

uncontrollable psychos :|

 

[cavemanmoron]

Originally posted by: cavemanmoron
stab him! 🙁

Man stabbed 2 relatives with carving knives, police say
Contend comment on table manners preceded attack
By Heather Allen, Globe Correspondent | November 27, 2004

When Frank Palacios used his fingers to grab a piece of Thanksgiving turkey, Worcester police said, a nephew piped up to correct his table manners: ''Uncle Frank, can you please use your utensils?"

Palacios did, police said, but he used two carving knives to stab two family members.

Palacios was arraigned yesterday in Worcester Central District Court, where he pleaded not guilty to assault and battery with intent to murder, three counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, and resisting arrest. Bail was set at $20,000 cash; he is scheduled to appear in court Dec. 15.

''The entire episode allegedly started when a group of people were either carving the turkey or sitting down to eat, when [Palacios] was using his God-given fingers to remove turkey," Deputy Superintendent Paul Campbell said.

Wielding the two knives, Palacios, 23, stabbed two family members, Gonzalo Ocasio Jr., 18, and his father, Gonzalo Ocasio, 49, as they approached Palacios in an effort to calm him down, police said.

When police arrived at the Main Street apartment Thursday at about 6:30 p.m., the younger Ocasio was in the hallway bleeding heavily from what appeared to be a stomach wound; his father had severe cuts on his right arm and hand. Both were taken to UMass Memorial Medical Center, where a nursing supervisor could provide no information about their conditions yesterday.

Police arrested Palacios, who was being held down by other family members.

Jack Levin, a criminologist, said the stabbing may seem peculiar, but is not rare, especially around the holidays.

''Family violence often occurs during a holiday because family members who don't get along well are forced together," said Levin, director of the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict at Northeastern University. ''For one thing, the holidays are stressful, not because people are alone, but because they are thrown together with relatives that they may not like."

© Copyright 2004 Globe Newspaper Company.
http://www.boston.com/news/loc...ing_knives_police_say/

 

[Freejack2]

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