The Boston Globe

Authoritie­s identify victim of stabbing

Leominster man, 20, killed on Tuesday

- By Nick Stoico GlObE STAff Nick Stoico can be reached at nick.stoico@globe.com.

A man who was killed in a stabbing in leominster this week was identified as 20-yearold Robert Day, Worcester District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr.’s office said Wednesday.

The stabbing was reported outside the Riverside Village apartment complex on State Street shortly before 1 a.m. Tuesday, Early’s office said. Day, of leominster, was found suffering a stab wound and was taken to a local hospital, where he was later pronounced dead, the district attorney’s office said.

Day’s death is under investigat­ion by leominster police and State Police detectives assigned to Early’s office, officials said. Officials asked that anyone with informatio­n or video of the stabbing call leominster police at 978-534-7560.

No further informatio­n was immediatel­y released. No arrests have been reported.

Day’s aunt, cammie Rivera, has organized an online fundraiser to help the family with funeral expenses. The page had received nearly $11,000 as of Thursday morning.

“We are processing the unexpected passing of a vibrant 20-year-old young man just beginning his life,” Day’s family said in a statement on the GofundMe page.

“Robert was taken from us unexpected­ly this morning at the hands of another. No family should have to endure so much pain as a result of such an unexpected tragedy.”

The stabbing is the second death to come under investigat­ion in leominster in less than a week. On May 2, Jami Parker, 28, a sergeant in the Massachuse­tts National Guard, was ordered held without bail after she allegedly shot and killed her boyfriend during an argument in her leominster home.

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