Massachusetts and New Hampshire state police have arrested a South Boston man in connection with the fatal stabbing of a man Sunday night in Brockton, Plymouth County District Attorney Tim Cruz announced Thursday.
After an arrest warrant was obtained for Cody Urban, 23, he was taken into custody at 6:15 a.m. Thursday at an apartment in Manchester, New Hampshire, authorities said.
Police were called to Good Samaritan Hospital at 9:51 p.m. Sunday for a report of a stabbing victim that went to the facility for treatment, authorities said.
The victim, identified 31-year-old Samuel Rutledge, of Brockton, died a short time later, the district attorney said.
Through an investigation, authorities learned that Rutledge had been involved in an altercation with Urban outside a gas station on Warren Avenue.
Urban allegedly stabbed Rutledge then fled the scene in a white vehicle, the district attorney said.
An acquaintance of Rutledge drove him to the hospital, according to the district attorney.
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Urban will be brought back to Massachusetts, authorities said, where he will be arraigned in Brockton District Court on one count each of murder and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. It's unclear if Urban has an attorney.