Blond madman laughed as he stabbed 4 girls at Mass. movie theater before McDonald’s attack: report
A Porsche-driving madman with flowing blond locks laughed as he stabbed four little girls watching kids movie “IF” at a Massachusetts theater — then attacked two other people at a McDonald’s, according to cops and a witness.
Jared Ravizza, 26, of Martha’s Vineyard, is also suspected in a murder investigation in Connecticut.
He is accused of wounding four girls at the AMC Braintree 10 movie theater outside Boston in eastern Massachusetts about 6 p.m. on Saturday, according to Plymouth District Attorney Timothy Cruz.
Authorities say he walked into the theater and stabbed the four children without saying a word. The victims were under 17, with the youngest being only 9 years old.
“Without saying anything and without any warning, he suddenly attacked and stabbed the four young females,” the Braintree Police Department said in a statement. “The attack appeared to be unprovoked. After the attack, the man ran out of the theater and left in a vehicle.”
Local mom Lisa Dembowski told WCVB 5 in Boston that her three daughters and their friend were the victims.
The girls were there to see the movie “IF,” a PG-rated flick starring Ryan Reynolds about a girl who starts seeing other people’s imaginary friends that they left in their childhood.
“I got a call from my sister that my oldest daughter had called her (and) that I needed to get to the AMC movie theater right away because they had been stabbed,” Dembowski told the outlet. “Honestly, I just got in my car and headed right there.”
Cops took her inside after she arrived — and the worried mom was shocked to see people still buying tickets at the open theater as if nothing had happened.
Then her girls told her what happened as they enjoyed the movie.
“They were the only four people in this movie theater,” she said. “They had just sat down. They had just got their concessions.”
“I guess he came up behind them in the row — they were in the second row — and he came up behind them,” she continued. “My oldest was leaned over to get something. He got her in the back and then my other daughter in the top of the chest.
“Then, my last daughter across her arm — laughing the whole time — and then got their friend and then ran off.”
The girls were rushed to Boston-area hospitals and treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
A movie theater concessions worker described the suspect as wearing “an oversized trench coat, sunglasses, and a long blonde wig,” according to CBS Boston.
According to local media reports, Ravizza’s blond hair is real and not a wig.
What to know about Massachusetts stabbing spree suspect Jared Ravizza
- Jared Ravizza, 26, is suspected of going on a stabbing spree across Massachusetts and Connecticut on May 25, 2024.
- Ravizza allegedly laughed as he stabbed four girls at a Braintree movie theater before driving to Plymouth and allegedly attacking two people in a McDonald’s.
- A witness to the McDonald’s attack said Ravizza had a “big expression” on his face and compared it to Jack Nicholson’s character in “The Shining.”
- He is also suspected of murdering his 70-year-old roommate, Bruce Feldman, in the Deep River, Connecticut, house they shared.
- Ravizza was arrested in April on Martha’s Vineyard for allegedly attacking his father. Jason Ravizza claimed his son suffered a “mental break” before assaulting him and wrecking his office.
- He was apparently in the process of changing his look ahead of the attacks and had filed paperwork for a legal name change to Jared Love Jones last month.
- Locals told The Post that Ravizza is a “weirdo” who had an obsession with exercising and his looks. He had a dispute with two neighbors shortly before Feldman’s murder in which he allegedly threw a shovel through their window after they called the police on Feldman.
Ravizza then fled in a Porsche SUV and drove 30 miles to Plymouth, Massachusetts, where he allegedly stabbed two employees of a rest-stop McDonald’s on Route 3.
Ravizza allegedly reached through the drive-thru window and stabbed a 29-year-old man with a knife, according to investigators who reviewed surveillance video from the fast-food joint.
Then he parked his black 2018 Porsche Macan, went inside and knifed a 21-year-old woman, Cruz said on social media.
The victims were also treated at a hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.
Ravizza allegedly then led police on a car chase that only ended when he crashed his expensive ride in Sandwich, Mass.
Cops arrested him at about 7:15 p.m., then brought him to the hospital for treatment.
He faces several charges in Plymouth, including assault with intent to murder and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, the district attorney said.
Ravizza may also be linked to a murder investigation at a home in Deep River, Connecticut, the Connecticut State Police said.
Cops found a body in the tiny town around 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, according to WCVB.
Connecticut State Police issued an alert earlier for the suspect, describing him as “armed and dangerous” with a 10-inch knife, CBS Boston reported.
“A suspect in this investigation has been taken into custody in the state of Massachusetts, and there is no active threat to the public,” the State Police said in a news release.
