Assault and battery with a dangerous pear: Two teens charged with attacking woman at Red Line stop with her own groceries

A high-school student from Jamaica Plain was confined to his home - except to be allowed out to attend school - for his alleged role in a grocery attack on a woman at the Broadway Red Line station on Thursday, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

Saul Diaz, 18, was charged with unarmed robbery and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.

A 16-year-old was charged with the juvenile equivalent of the same crimes, but is too young to have her name released.

According to the DSA's office, police responded to the station around 3:35 p.m. to find a woman, 21, sitting on a bench on the Red Line platform, crying:

The victim told police she had been on an outbound Red Line train and saw a group of teenagers arguing with someone. One of the juveniles, a female, turned to the victim and said “What the (expletive) are you looking at?”

As the female juvenile disembarked from the train at Broadway station, she and a second member of the group, later identified as Diaz, pulled a bag of groceries from the victim and dumped its items on the platform. They then picked up items and threw them at the victim. The victim told police she was hit in the nose with a pear. Police noted that the victim’s nose was swollen and bleeding. The victim was transported to Tufts Medical Center for treatment.

Diaz and the younger teen were arrested Friday, based on descriptions by the victim and video from station surveillance cameras, the DA's office reports.

Police said at the time that a total of five teens were involved in the attack.

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