A Chabad rabbi was stabbed multiple times in Boston on Thursday in an attack outside the Shaloh House Jewish Day School in Brighton Massachusetts, according to a report on Chabad.org.
Rabbi Shlomo Noginski is in stable condition after being stabbed multiple times by the assailant. The attacker, who was arrested by police, had a knife and gun on him at the time.
The arrested suspect has been identified as Khaled Awad, 24, of Brighton, according to Boston.com.
According to the report, the attacker held the rabbi at gunpoint and tried to force him into a car. The rabbi escaped to a nearby park, where the attacker stabbed him multiple times, before trying to flee after the rabbi caused a commotion trying to fight him off. The rabbi was taken to a hospital for treatment.
A summer day camp is being held in the Shaloh House, but most of the campers were not there at the time of the attack. The campers who were onsite were placed in lockdown.
Tehillim can be said for Shlomo ben Zlata Miriam.
? Chabad Rabbi Stabbed Outside of Boston’s Shaloh House Jewish Day School
Rabbi Shlomo Noginski in stable condition, public asked to pray and increase good deeds in his merit. https://t.co/Ux9UkwHTeN pic.twitter.com/G5gEu8ghX8
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