MARLBOROUGH – A man faces charges following an alleged stabbing in Marlborough.
Rodolfo Orozco-Austin has been charged with felony assault and battery with a dangerous weapon causing serious bodily injuries and misdemeanor assault and battery.
Marlborough police were dispatched to 509 Lincoln Street at 3:48 p.m. Oct. 8 following the report that several people were fighting, and one of the people was using a knife.
According to the statement of facts filed in Marlborough District Court, 509 Lincoln Street is an Advocates residential property.
An employee told police that Orozco-Austin, two other men and a woman had been outside earlier that afternoon barbecuing and drinking from a large container. Around 2 p.m., the employee told police he heard yelling.
The woman told officers Orozco-Austin had been arguing with the two men, who had taken the large container that was filled with alcohol. She said the men punched and shoved Orozco-Austin. It stopped being a physical fight, and she said Orozco-Austin “screamed” at her to give him his knife, according to court documents.
One of the men said that Orozco-Austin stabbed the other man, who was bleeding on the left lateral side of his abdomen, according to the statement of facts. Orozco-Austin told police that he stabbed the man because the two had been “trying to beat him up,” police wrote.
Orozco-Austin was arraigned in Marlborough District Court on Oct. 10. He will return to court for a pretrial hearing Oct. 25.
