A Boston teen stabbed in the neck during a fight at the Chinatown T station was then arrested himself in a peculiar end to a bloody Saturday confrontation, police said.
Transit Police rushed to the Chinatown station around 3 p.m., where they said they found 19-year-old Joseph Jones with a stab wound to his neck. Officers quickly arrested Anthony Bonner, 25, of Roxbury after they say witnesses pointed him out as the alleged attacker.
But in a strange twist, after Jones was taken to the hospital with what police called a non-life-threatening injury, he too was arrested on charges of intimidating a witness.
Police said the two have been involved in an “ongoing dispute” before tangling on the T platform, but did not provide information on may have led to the fight.
Following his arraignment today in Boston Municipal Court, Jones was ordered to undergo a competency evaluation at Taunton State Hospital and will return to court next month, according to the Suffolk County district attorney's office.
Bonner, meanwhile, was released on his own recognizance after pleading not guilty to a count of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
The two, who are cousins, have been embroiled in an "ongoing dispute," authorities said. But Transit Police did not detail exactly what sparked the T stop tussle.
— matthew.stout@bostonherald.com
