Three Teens Arrested After Square Stabbing

Three teenagers were arrested late Friday night for allegedly stabbing a man in front of Pizzeria Uno in Harvard Square, according to the Cambridge Police Department (CPD).

Police arrested 19-year-old James Winquist of Hingham, Mass. around 11:30 p.m. Friday evening on JFK Street in Harvard Square, according to CPD spokesperson James De Francesco.

They also arrested 18-year-old Sarah Butler of Penbroke, Mass. and 17-year-old Robert Florio of Randolph, Mass., charging them as “accessories after the fact.”

De Francesco said the victim, whom witnesses described as an African-American male, is in stable condition.

At the crime scene Friday night, yellow tape marked off the area where the victim and alleged assailant were fighting. The scene included a car with a broken windshield, where Francesco said somebody landed during a fight related to the stabbing.

Witnesses said the alleged perpetrators—whom they described as people who hang out in the pit—ran into the Harvard Square T station after the incident, where police stopped them.

An hour after the incident, with JFK St. still closed to traffic, a pair of sneakers and bloody bandages sat on the hood of the car with the smashed windshield in front of Pizzeria Uno.

Harvard University Police Department spokesperson Steven G. Catalano said that no one involved in the stabbing was affiliated with Harvard.

De Francesco said he could not comment on any motive or whether the victim and alleged perpetrators knew each other prior to the incident. He said CPD is still investigating the incident.

—Staff writer Jenifer L. Steinhardt can be reached at steinhar@fas.harvard.edu.