16-Year-Old Arrested After Woman Attacked In Cambridge: Police

CAMBRIDGE, MA — A 16-year-old Cambridge teen was arrested in connection to an unarmed robbery and aggravated assault and battery following an assault in Cambridge that left a woman unconscious this weekend.

At approximately 10:44 p.m., Saturday night a 30-year-old woman was found by a passerby on Loughery Walkway bleeding from her head.

The woman told police she was talking on her phone as she walked when she was hit in the head with a blunt object by a man on a bicycle. He raced away with her purse down the walkway toward Kendall Square.

She was transported to a hospital with a severe laceration over her left eye. Cambridge Police Detectives began a canvass for evidence and were able to locate useful video surveillance at a nearby business.

While searching the area, a young man wearing clothing matching that of the suspect on the video was located and stopped by an officer on Fifth Street.

Police interviewed him and got a warrant to search his home. They found a bicycle matching the one the man was seen riding, in the back yard of the teen's apartment building, along with clothing seen on the video. Police said they found the woman's property in a nearby trash barrel.

The teen was also found to be in possession of a double-edged knife and will be charged with possession of a deadly weapon, police said.

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