Man who was out on personal recognizance for an Egleston Square stabbing is charged with another Egleston Square stabbing

A Somerville man who likes to hang out in Egleston Square was ordered held without bail as a danger to the community this week following his arrest on charges he stabbed a senior citizen on a bus in Egleston Square on Sept. 11 - while he was on personal-recognizance release awaiting trial on charges he stabbed somebody three blocks from there last year - the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

Maalik Abdur-Rasheed, 47, was arrested at 2000 Columbus Ave. after he allegedly stabbed a 74-year-old man in the neck on an MBTA bus shortly before 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 11.

A witness provided officers with a video that shows the victim, 74, in a physical altercation with another male, later identified as Abdur-Rasheed. In the video, a knife is observed in Abdur-Rasheed’s right hand and he can be seen making multiple lunging motions toward the victim. Another video shows the aftermath with Abdur-Rasheed exiting the bus and the victim bleeding onto the floor of the bus.

As the victim was transported to a local hospital, police found Abdur-Rasheed a couple blocks away on Walnut Avenue, the DA's office reports. He was arraigned the next day on charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and assault to murder, the DA's office says, adding he was formally declared "dangerous" at a hearing Monday, at which Roxbury Municipal Court Judge David Breen ordered him held without bail.

Abdur-Rasheed was already facing a charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon for a stabbing on March 21, 2023 on Washington Street between Beethoven and Atherton streets.

Police identified him as the assailant a couple months later and got an arrest warrant on July 18, 2023. But police did not find him until July 19 of this year, when they conducted a drug raid at 8L Beethoven St. in Egleston Square.

Unlike the other three men arrested then, Abdur-Rasheed was not charged with any drug offenses, just on the warrant for the 2023 stabbing. At his arraignment in Roxbury Court on July 23, Judge Margaret Albertson released him on personal recognizance, court records show.

At his arraignment for the bus stabbing, a judge revoked his personal recognizance at least until his dangerousness hearing on Monday - at which point he was ordered held because of his supposed dangerousness, not for violating the conditions of his earlier freedom.

Innocent, etc.