Man stabbed at Gardner Planet Health fitness center says assault was random

A person sustained critical accidents in what he says was a random stabbing at a Planet Health fitness center in Gardner on Wednesday morning. 

Daniel Harris, the 43-year-old sufferer, was taken to UMass Memorial Medical Middle in Worcester and is predicted to make a full restoration.

The suspect, recognized by state police as Lennox Nunez, 28, allegedly fled the scene in a car however was promptly apprehended and arrested by a state trooper, who pulled him over and located an “edged weapon” in his automobile.

“I by no means stated something to the man, he by no means stated something to me, simply jumped me and ran off,” Harris informed CBS Boston.

Nunez has been charged with assault and battery with a harmful weapon, and is being held in native police custody with bail set at $50,000. His protection legal professional maintains that the details of the altercation are “in dispute.”

Health club staff rushed to assist Harris after the assault. They bandaged his wound and had been capable of document the suspect’s license plate quantity earlier than he drove away. Planet Health is cooperating with Gardner police’s investigation, in accordance with a press launch.

Harris informed 7news the incident hasn’t deterred him from exercising at Planet Health. “I’m not going to let anyone like that cease me from going to a spot I really like and work out,” he stated.