Thursday, 4:30 PM
Man stabbed at restaurant in Grove Hall
By John R. Ellement, Globe Staff
Police are investigating a stabbing this morning at a restaurant on Blue Hill Avenue that sent a man to the hospital with a knife wound in his back.
Officers responded to a call at 7:50 a.m. at the Jam Rock restaurant in the Grove Hall neighborhood in Boston. The man was stabbed inside the eatery and rushed to Boston Medical Center, where his condition was described as serious to critical, police said.
A woman turned herself today at about 9:40 a.m. to Boston police in connection with the stabbing.Police identified the woman as Meshell Whyte, 34, of Boston.
Whyte pleaded not guilty today in Roxbury Municipal Court to one count of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. Judge Robert Tochka set bail at $5,000 cash, which her family was trying to raise.
In court, Suffolk Assistant District Attorney Tonya Platt said Whyte stabbed her husband, identified in court records as Leslie Tracey of Mattapan, once in the back with a 12 to 14 inch black-handled knife.
