A Camden man is being held by Massachusetts authorities in connection with a stabbing this past weekend in the town of Amherst.

Noah K. Pfister, 24, turned himself in to Amherst police Monday afternoon. He has been charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon – a knife.

Pfister is being held at the Hampshire County Jail on $25,000 cash bail, pending his arraignment Tuesday in Eastern Hampshire District Court.

Amherst police, in a news release posted on the department’s website Monday, said officers were sent to investigate a disturbance at 66 Pine St. at 12:34 a.m. Saturday.

Officers had to disperse several college-age students from the area before they were able to locate a 21-year-old University of Massachusetts student from Washington, D.C. The student had been stabbed several times in the neck and the chest. He was transported to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Pfister waited until 1 p.m. Monday to turn himself in to police.

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Pfister is not a student, according to Amherst police. He was in Amherst visiting a girlfriend when he allegedly stabbed the victim, whose name was not released. The case remains under investigation.

Detective Lt. Ronald Young told the Daily Hampshire Gazette that Pfister and his girlfriend decided to go to the home of her former boyfriend in North Amherst. A fight broke out at 66 Pine St. and the student was stabbed.

Dennis Hoey can be contacted at 791-6365 or at:

dhoey@pressherald.com


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