Men's-rooms slashing followed by parking-lot head bashing at Mattapan club

The Boston Licensing Board heard details contiguous of a brace of violent, and apt related, incidents astatine Macumba Latina, 477 River St. that near a patron with with his close forearm slashed unfastened and a antheral successful the parking batch crossed the thoroughfare lying connected the crushed aft getting deed successful the caput with a shot bat.

Now the committee could determine Thursday whether Mattapan's lone nightclub could person foreseen oregon prevented the men's-room slashing. If so, the committee would past see imaginable penalties for the slashing. Although some the nine and constabulary accidental the incidents were apt related, the committee volition lone see the slashing due to the fact that the constabulary citation issued that nighttime was lone for the men's country incident.

According to the nine and police, a antheral was with immoderate friends erstwhile helium went into the men's country astir midnight connected Sept. 6. Accounts past alteration whether determination was different antheral successful determination with a weapon oregon 4 men, 2 of them with a knife, but the antheral had his forearm opened up with a knife.

Co-owner Max Fernandes said the unfortunate tried moving retired the front, but that helium stopped him to use archetypal assistance and to telephone for an ambulance. However, the antheral said helium would get himself to the infirmary and got into a car, successful which helium coiled up astatine Carney Hospital.

BPD Sgt. Det. James Moore said helium did not cognize astir the stabbing erstwhile helium responded to 500 River St., the parking batch wherever galore Macumba Latina patrons park, connected a study of a antheral connected the ground, semi-conscious aft being bashed connected the caput from behind. He said helium was lone notified aft helium arrived determination that determination was idiosyncratic astatine Carney who had conscionable been stabbed astatine Macumba Latina.

Fernandes told the committee that his information unit had already stopped the stabber extracurricular the men's room, but that helium escaped by getting them to hold to fto him spell backmost successful to pee, lone helium past ran retired the backmost door. He said what apt happened was that immoderate of the friends of the unfortunate spotted him heading to the parking batch and went aft him with a bat.

Fernandes said helium did not cognize however anybody got into the nine with a knife, due to the fact that his seasoned doorman is precise bully astir patting down men, "right to their precise shoes and boots they are wearing," and that the nine has refused introduction successful the past to radical bearing weapons. A pistillate bouncer performs a akin cheque connected women.

Still, helium said that due to the fact that of the September incident, the nine has purchased a metallic detector.

Macumba Latina lawyer William Rehrey said this was the archetypal stabbing astatine the nine successful its 15 years successful business.