Lynn man charged for assault with box cutter

LYNN – A Lynn District Court judge ordered a Lynn man held without bail Monday after he allegedly broke into another man’s apartment, came at the man with a knife and tried to cut his throat, according to a Lynn Police report.Lynn Police arrested Fernando DeLeon, 37, who is homeless, around 8 p.m. Saturday and charged him with assault to murder while armed and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.According to the report, Lynn Police responded to a call that someone had been stabbed on Boston Street around 7 p.m. A witness then led officers into a second-floor apartment, where they found DeLeon “kneeling on the living room floor with blood all over his face and an open box cutter knife on the floor beside him.”A resident of the apartment told authorities he was watching TV in his bedroom when DeLeon, who he does not know, forced open the door to his room and came at him with the box cutter, the report said.The man described DeLeon as “drunk and enraged,” and said he did not know why DeLeon was in the apartment, but he was trying to calm him before DeLeon put the box cutter to his throat, the report said. When the man tried to grab the knife in defense, his hand was cut by the weapon.The man then punched DeLeon several times until DeLeon fell to the floor, according to the report. An ambulance transported him to Union Hospital for treatment after police interviewed him.A witness who also lives in the apartment said he was watching soccer in the living room at about 7 p.m. when DeLeon showed up uninvited and began drinking beer. The witness said DeLeon had been to the apartment before but was unwelcome on this occasion, the report said. He said he saw DeLeon break the bedroom door open and go after his apartment-mate with the box cutter, and that he called police soon after DeLeon fell to the floor.Judge Albert Conlon ordered DeLeon held in Middleton Jail without bail until his dangerousness hearing, scheduled for March 7.Taylor Provost can be reached at [email protected].