Lynn stabbing suspect ruled to be a danger

LYNN – A judge found a city man to be a danger and ordered the defendant held pending trial after police said the man ran up and stabbed a woman on the street last week, and investigating officers subsequently connected the defendant with an armed robbery in November.”As (the alleged victim) approached her house, she heard that someone was running behind her,” Lynn Police Officer Max Saravia wrote in a report. “(The alleged victim) turned back to look but a tall, olive-skinned male, maybe Dominican descent, wearing a black shirt, stabbed her with a knife.”Briam S. Gomez, 22, of 80 Newton Ave. second floor, pleaded not guilty to charges of armed assault to murder; and armed robbery; at his June 24 arraignment in Lynn District Court. He was ordered held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing.Police responded to Hood Street at 7:58 p.m. last Monday and found a 30-year-old city woman in a driveway bleeding from multiple stab wounds, according to a report by Lynn Police Officer Ronald Diaz. The woman told police she was returning from the bakery when a man ran up and stabbed her multiple times in the neck and shoulder. The man did not try to steal anything, the alleged victim reported.A man and woman subsequently approached police on scene. The man told officers he was outside and had seen his stepson, Gomez, wearing a black or dark shirt and running. The man told police he then saw the alleged victim crying and covered in blood, police reported.The man told officers he got home and Gomez soon appeared at the door, out of breath and wearing a white shirt. Gomez allegedly asked if the family could go to the Dominican Republic soon, then changed his clothes several times.Police interviewed Gomez, who appeared “very sweaty and was breathing a little heavy,” according to reports. But Gomez allegedly told police he had only walked outside to find a friend but hadn’t talked or met anyone.Gomez’s stepmother told officers Gomez had bipolar disorder and had been acting strangely for the past couple of days but was still taking the proper medication. The stepmother told police she found a white T-shirt with red stains.Lynn Police Officer Thomas Mulvey responded to the home and reported he “immediately recognized” Gomez from a November incident where a woman was stabbed in the shoulder and robbed while in the foyer of her Boston Street home.Gomez’s stepmother recalled the defendant had come home sometime last year with a blood-covered Coach wallet and with a large kitchen knife missing its tip, according to Mulvey’s report.He reported the alleged victim in the November incident was robbed of a Coach wallet and police recovered the tip of a knife at the scene.Both stepparents said the suspect shown in surveillance footage from the Nov. 13 incident “looks like (Gomez).”On Tuesday, Judge James LaMothe granted the prosecution’s request that Gomez be found a danger and be held without bail pending trial. Gomez is scheduled to return to court July 31.