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Man used hunting knife in brutal slaying at Massachusetts library, authorities say
A man armed with a hunting knife stabbed a woman to death Saturday inside a public library in Massachusetts, authorities said.
When police arrived, they found that an elderly man also had been stabbed, Boston's Fox 25 reported.
"There were three to four police cars here, there was an ambulance and there was a woman taken out," Russ Ganz, a Winchester resident, told the station.
Neighbors of suspect Jeffrey Yao say they saw warning signs of bad behavior in the past & reported him to police for vandalism. Now he’s charged with murder for stabbing a woman to death inside a public library today. Details at 10PM @boston25 pic.twitter.com/NA1EQQaRgj
— Litsa Pappas (@LitsaPappas) February 25, 2018
The suspect -- identified as Jeffrey Yao, 23 -- allegedly approached the 22-year-old woman from behind as she was seated at a table in the reading room of Winchester Public Library, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said.
The blade was said to be 10 inches long and the suspect reportedly stabbed the woman multiple times.
