When a Massachusetts construction worker began stabbing two co-workers on Monday, another worker used his jujitsu training to stop the attack.
Carcensky Salvent, 21, is accused of stabbing one male co-worker, who was on a ladder, four to five times in the leg and another who tried to help in the back. That’s when another co-worker, known as Lito M., was able to disarm and restrain Salvent until Cambridge police arrived, reports said, saying jujitsu taught him how to take control of the situation.
“My arms were going numb. I was starting to go numb a little bit, but I just kept switching back and forth from being taught. It was tough,” Lito M. told WCVB. “When I had him on the ground, he kept saying, ‘He owes me.’ That’s it. We don’t know what he owes him for. The kid that he stabbed is a young kid. He’s not like that person. He is a good kid and a hard worker.”
Lito M. added he did not consider his efforts heroic but that they were just what he “had to do.”
Cambridge Police Deputy Supt. Pauline Wells told WBZ he was “quite brave to jump in.”
“Bravery is definitely the word of the day for his co-workers,” Wells said.
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Salvent was arraigned in court on two counts of armed assault to murder, two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, and assault and battery to collect a loan. Salvent reportedly told the judge that the first victim owed him 14 grams, believed to be a reference to marijuana.
All of the men involved reportedly work for Shawnlee Construction, a subcontractor at a Cambridge construction site.
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Both victims were seriously injured but are expected to live.
Salvent was denied bail.
