Greg Lee of North Quincy needed some tools to clear leaves from his yard. This came as a surprise to the steady stream of people who drove to the West Quincy store to pick up supplies. Thursday as police investigated the stabbing. The Home Depot at 177 Willard St., located near East Milton Square and the Southeast Expressway, was closed from about 8 a.m. “We do have quite a bit of evidence,” Keenan said. Police said they recovered the knife used in the stabbing, and they have talked to several store employees who said they witnessed the altercation. John Dougan, Boyd told Tobin: “I’m lost in the woods and I’m coming back.”īoyd was held without bail overnight at Quincy’s police station, Dougan said. Tobin got Boyd’s phone number from another Home Depot employee.Īccording to Police Capt. Police said Boyd fled the store and went into nearby woods, but he returned within a half-hour and turned himself in after Quincy Police Lt. “We know there was some bad blood prior,” Quincy Police Chief Paul Keenan said.

Police said the two men got into an altercation before the stabbing. The alleged assault occurred shortly before 8 a.m. The victim, Corey Frederick, 37, of Cambridge, was in critical condition as of Thursday night, hours after receiving emergency surgery at Boston Medical Center. He faces charges of assault by means of a dangerous weapon and assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon. The suspect in the stabbing, Jamal Boyd of Mattapan, was scheduled to be arraigned Friday in Quincy District Court. The knife pierced the victim’s thigh, cutting a femoral artery and spilling blood onto the floor with customers in the store.

The call was made after a Home Depot worker used a pocket-sized folding knife to stab a colleague in one of the store’s aisles, police said. “I have an associate bleeding to death at my store right now,” a short-of-breath male employee said to the dispatcher. The Home Depot on Willard Street was barely open two hours Thursday when one of the store’s workers phoned 911.

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