Stabbing suspect held on $25K bail

By Sarah Gantz, Globe Correspondent

A Roxbury teenager was ordered held on $25,000 bail after being arraigned Wednesday for the stabbing of two other teenagers last week, Suffolk County prosecutors said.

Rene A. Torres, 18, was charged with two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon for attacking a 16-year-old and an 18-year-old at an Orange Line MBTA station last Thursday, prosecutors said in a statement.

The defendant allegedly followed the victims, whose names were not disclosed, onto a train at the Massachusetts Avenue stop and followed them when they left the train at Roxbury Crossing, then attacked them.

The older victim suffered minor slash and puncture wounds. He was treated at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and was released a day later, said Suffolk district attorney's spokesman Jake Wark.

The younger victim was stabbed four times, once in the abdomen, causing life-threatening injuries, when he tried to stop Torres from attacking the other teenager. He remains hospitalized, Wark said.

Torres told investigators he had acted in self-defense, prosecutors said.

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