'Mob Fight' Leads to Stabbing on High Street

A "mob fight" on School Street ended with a stabbing inside the High Street garage early Sunday morning, according to eyewitnesses.

"I walked outside and saw a guy with a woman in a headlock just pounding her face – people were fighting all over School Street," said Diane, the bar manager at the Polish American Club. She declined to give her last name.

She said she first knew there was something wrong when her bar back returned to say he couldn't get past the "mob fight" outside to get to his car to go home.

"There was a banquet going on upstairs and we heard verbal fighting up there, maybe 100 people were up there, then it ended up out on the street and then into the parking garage. Police cleared the streets and told us they weren't here for this crime scene, they were here for the stabbing crime scene," she said.

The Polish American Club rents out the upstairs space for parties, banquets and other private functions.

During the melee she said she saw beer bottles and people "literally flying" through the air.

"Bottles landed at my feet. I didn't see any weapons, but I saw a lot of guys beating a lot of women," she said.

Nashua Police confirmed they were still working on the details of the incident, which involved "several injuries" and "several crime scenes." Police said they did have someone in custody related to the stabbing, but were still gathering information and dealing with "some language barriers" involved in unraveling what actually happened, and where any crimes that were committed occurred.

 School Street and High Street were all taped off with crime scene tape, as well as the garage, until about 10 a.m. Sunday, she said.

By Sunday morning, the only evidence of any of the commotion or police presence was a scrap of police tape left by the curb outside the private club.

"Police just told everyone to go, just pushing everyone into their vehicles and telling them to go, which was probably a bad idea at 1 a.m. at a bar," she said. "My truck was stuck here. I had to get a ride home from the bartender. I came back this morning to get my truck," she said.