A Randolph woman was stabbed in the neck after coming to the aid of a person screaming for help early yesterday morning a parking lot of the Bunker Hill Housing Development in Charlestown, several witnesses said. The victim was identified by a longtime friend as Monique Rickenbacker, 45, who had lived at the development for several years but had recently moved out after finding an apartment in Randolph. She was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital with critical injuries but is expected to survive, said the friend, Sheree Clifton, who lives in the development. Rickenbacker occasionally returned to the development and was there early yesterday when she responded to the plea for help from an unidentified person who was being beaten on Walford Way, witnesses said. Clifton said she was sleeping about 7:55 a.m. when she heard a loud pounding at her door. She got up to see who it was and when she opened her door, Rickenbacker was holding the side of her neck as blood streamed through her fingers and over her clothes. ``She told me to take her to the hospital because she was dying,'' Clifton said. Clifton said she quickly got dressed and ushered Rickenbacker into her car. On the way to Massachusetts General Hospital, Rickenbacker was silent, unable to utter a word because of her injury. She was calm, Clifton said, while she held a towel to her throat. Clifton said Rickenbacker had sustained a deep gash on the right side of her neck and underwent surgery. Police recovered a knife, which they believe was used in the stabbing, in the parking lot of the Bunker Hill Housing Development. The stabbing occurred as residents of the expansive red-brick building were preparing to head to work. Police blocked off the parking lot with yellow tape as they conducted their investigation. By 11 a.m., they took down the tape, allowing some residents to get to their vehicles and go to work.
Source: The Boston Globe
