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Displaced Students Stabbed in Boston
By KEN MAGUIRE, AP
BOSTON (Sept. 14) - Two Loyola University students attending classes at Boston College after their school was shut down by Hurricane Katrina were stabbed on a Boston street early Wednesday morning.
Joseph Vairo, 19, was in serious condition at a hospital after being stabbed twice, Boston College spokesman Jack Dunn said. An unidentified 20-year-old was treated and released.
The students -- among 150 from Loyola and Tulane University who are temporarily attending Boston College -- got into an argument with five men at 1:30 a.m. outside a store, said Officer Mike McCarthy, a Boston police spokesman.
They walked away, but were attacked moments later, McCarthy and Dunn said. McCarthy said there have been no arrests, and that witnesses were being interviewed.
"It's clear that they were the victims here," Dunn said.
Vairo was stabbed "multiple times" in the "left and right chest area," Dunn said. He is originally from Holden, Mass., about 55 miles west of Boston. His condition is stable and improving, Dunn said.
The other student's name was withheld pending notification of his family in Oakland. He suffered lacerations and a broken nose, Dunn said.
It was not immediately known if the students had been in the New Orleans area when Katrina struck. On Sept. 6, they began attending classes at Boston College, one of many schools around the country that reached out to displaced students.
"They have been most grateful for the opportunity to study here while their universities are closed and had been widely embraced by the Boston College community, which is why this random and unusual act of violence is so upsetting," Dunn said.
Loyola, located in Alexandria, La., is closed for the fall semester. The school's Web site said the campus suffered only minor physical damage and will reopen for the spring semester.
A spokeswoman for Loyola could not be immediately reached for comment. After the hurricane, the city of Boston approved an emergency permit to allow Boston College to house 100 displaced students in a building it recently purchased from the Archdiocese of Boston.
Displaced Students Stabbed in Boston
By KEN MAGUIRE, AP
BOSTON (Sept. 14) - Two Loyola University students attending classes at Boston College after their school was shut down by Hurricane Katrina were stabbed on a Boston street early Wednesday morning.
Joseph Vairo, 19, was in serious condition at a hospital after being stabbed twice, Boston College spokesman Jack Dunn said. An unidentified 20-year-old was treated and released.
The students -- among 150 from Loyola and Tulane University who are temporarily attending Boston College -- got into an argument with five men at 1:30 a.m. outside a store, said Officer Mike McCarthy, a Boston police spokesman.
They walked away, but were attacked moments later, McCarthy and Dunn said. McCarthy said there have been no arrests, and that witnesses were being interviewed.
"It's clear that they were the victims here," Dunn said.
Vairo was stabbed "multiple times" in the "left and right chest area," Dunn said. He is originally from Holden, Mass., about 55 miles west of Boston. His condition is stable and improving, Dunn said.
The other student's name was withheld pending notification of his family in Oakland. He suffered lacerations and a broken nose, Dunn said.
It was not immediately known if the students had been in the New Orleans area when Katrina struck. On Sept. 6, they began attending classes at Boston College, one of many schools around the country that reached out to displaced students.
"They have been most grateful for the opportunity to study here while their universities are closed and had been widely embraced by the Boston College community, which is why this random and unusual act of violence is so upsetting," Dunn said.
Loyola, located in Alexandria, La., is closed for the fall semester. The school's Web site said the campus suffered only minor physical damage and will reopen for the spring semester.
A spokeswoman for Loyola could not be immediately reached for comment. After the hurricane, the city of Boston approved an emergency permit to allow Boston College to house 100 displaced students in a building it recently purchased from the Archdiocese of Boston.
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