Two arrested after suspected knife fight

WOONSOCKET – Two men were transported to Rhode Island Hospital with serious but non life-threatening stab wounds after a suspected knife fight on the Kendrick Avenue pedestrian bridge Monday night.

After responding to a report of a scuffle about 7 p.m., police found city resident Kenneth Boisvert, 18, on the ground and bleeding profusely from multiple stab wounds near the southern terminus of the footbridge, according to Police Chief Thomas F. Oates III.

A few minutes later, as Boisvert was transported to the hospital by ambulance – initially he was taken to Landmark Medical Center – investigators learned that a second victim had been driven to Landmark in a private vehicle. He was identified as 19-year-old Skyler Poznanski, also of Woonsocket.

Oates said the neither man is cooperating with police and it’s unclear whether any charges will be brought against either of them. But the chief said police theorize the two were responsible for inflicting the injuries on each other, possibly in fight that involved just one weapon.

Police recovered a knife on the footbridge.

“The case is still under investigation, though it does appear that the two were involved in some sort of altercation,” said the chief.

After Boisvert and Poznanski were stabilized at LMC, both were transported by Woonsocket Fire Department paramedics to Rhode Island Hospital.

Their condition was not available Tuesday, but Oates said Boisvert “lost a lot of blood” before he began receiving medical attention.

The chief said police do not have enough information from the victims to be sure why they had an encounter on the Kendrick Avenue pedestrian bridge, which spans the Blackstone River, linking Cumberland Street and Florence Drive.