A Plymouth County grand jury Friday indicted Jared Ravizza, the man charged with stabbing six people during a spring rampage that began at a Braintree theater and ended at a Plymouth McDonald’s.
Ravizza, 27, of Agawam, is accused of attacking two workers at the McDonald’s at the Route 3 rest area on the evening of May 25, after allegedly stabbing four girls at the AMC 10 movie theater.
He was charged Friday with one count of armed assault to murder, two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and a single count of lewd, wanton and, lascivious conduct.
He is being held without bail.
A Norfolk County grand jury indicted Ravizza in July on four counts of assault to murder, two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon on a child, and two counts of assault and battery. (Braintree is in Norfolk County.)
In court papers filed this week, Norfolk County assistant district attorney Jennifer Blair described how nine-year-old twins, their older sister, and her friend were at the theater to see the movie “IF” when they sensed a man hovering behind them.
He was wearing a baseball cap over his long blond hair and was the only other person in the theater.
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According to Blair, he approached the girls and stabbed each victim “in various places on their bodies.” When they started screaming, she wrote, he broke into a high-pitched laugh and fled.
The injured victims ran out of the theater crying for help, Blair said.
Later, when officers and emergency crews arrived at the Plymouth McDonald’s at 6:52 p.m., they found a 21-year-old woman and a 28-year-old man with knife wounds. They were treated at local hospitals.
Ravizza had fled the area but was arrested at about 7:15 p.m. after he crashed his black Porsche Macan in Sandwich, according to police.
At his arraignment in May, where he pled not guilty, authorities said that Ravizza was also a suspect in a killing in Connecticut that took place earlier in the day.
Ravizza has been in and out of Bridgewater State Hospital for psychiatric evaluations since he was arrested, according to his lawyer in the Norfolk County case, G. Makis Antzoulatos, who filed a court motion for Ravizza’s hospital records.
“There are significant mental health issues present in the Norfolk and Plymouth County cases,” he wrote in the motion filed July 26.
No date has been set yet for his arraignment on the new charges.
Brian A. Kelley, the lawyer who appeared for Ravizza when he was arraigned in Plymouth District Court could not be reached for comment.
Andrea Estes can be reached at andrea@plymouthindependent.org.
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