Overview

• Police responding to Chester Street around 5:27–5:30 a.m. on Sept. 16 found a 40-year-old man with stab wounds who later died at a local hospital and has not been publicly identified.
• Prosecutors named the suspect as 27-year-old Charles Ednerson and charged him with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and armed assault with intent to murder.
• Ednerson was arrested at a home on Winter Street in Brockton, according to WCVB.
• The case is being investigated by the Fitchburg Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation with Massachusetts State Police detectives assigned to the Worcester County district attorney’s office, and investigators have not said whether the stabbing occurred inside or outside the building.
• Neighbors reported an argument and commotion in the early morning hours before first responders arrived, providing a timeline of activity preceding the incident.