Man charged with double stabbing at West Roxbury store had just been convicted of assault and battery

Kristopher Soderberg, 38, of West Roxbury walked out of West Roxbury Municipal Court last week with a suspended six-month jail sentence after he was convicted of drunk driving and assault and battery.

Soderberg was arraigned today - in a bed at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center - by a West Roxbury Municipal Court justice on one count of armed assault with intent to rob and two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, following a bloody incident at a Grove Street market that left two other people with stab wounds as well, one to the chest, one requiring a tourniquet at the scene to reduce the bleeding.

According to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office, Soderberg walked into Familia Grocery on Grove near Washington with a dog around 9 p.m. and then just hung around inside the small shop. When he was asked to leave, he did, but only after warning he'd be back.

He returned around 9:30 p.m., with an opened folding knife, the DA's office reports:

Upon entering the store, he allegedly went behind the counter and ran at the victim with an opened folding knife, prosecutors said. As he did so, he allegedly stated, "Now I’m gonna run with the money."

The victim then produced a knife to fight off Soderberg and he and another man were able to remove Soderberg from behind the store's counter. During a physical altercation, both victims suffered stab wounds and Soderberg was knocked unconscious, prosecutors said.

Justice Kathleen Coffey set bail of $10,000 and ordered Soderberg to remain alcohol-free subject to random alcohol screening, stay away and have no contact with his victims, and stay away from Familia Grocery in the event he is released on bail. However, even should he make bail, he won't be going anywhere - Coffey ordered him held without bail pending a hearing on the incident as a violation of his suspended sentence, the DA's office reports.

Innocent, etc.