AUBURN – A 22-year-old man was charged with aggravated assault Saturday in connection with Friday night’s stabbing in front of the Big Apple.
Police say Carl Harrington showed up at the Auburn Police Department about 9:45 p.m. to turn himself in.
Harrington, of 29 Laurel Ave., is accused of stabbing another man during a confrontation over the use of a pay phone outside of the Main Street convenience store.
Police say Harrington was talking on the telephone when two men shouted at him to hang up. When he didn’t put down the phone, the two men approached him, Auburn Police Lt. James Robicheau said.
The confrontation ended with Harrington stabbing one of the men, according to Robicheau.
The victim, another man in his early 20s, stumbled toward the front of the store bleeding from a wound on the side of his chest. He was rushed to Central Maine Medical Center, where he underwent emergency surgery.
His injuries are not life-threatening, police said.
After writing a statement for police with his version of what happened, Harrington was taken to the Androscoggin County Jail.
The charge of aggravated assault is the latest in a string of charges pressed against him over the past two years.
He was charged with theft in April 2004 after he and his brother stole a cross from Eaton Memorial United Methodist Church in Livermore Falls.
Police found the eight-foot wooden cross in Harrington’s apartment with a photograph of convicted killer Charles Manson taped to it.
At some point after the theft, Harrington moved from Livermore Falls to Auburn.
In December 2004, he was arrested again, charged with burglary and theft after police caught him running from Saints Peter and Paul Basilica.
He and another man, Khiron Kinney, are accused of breaking into the Ash Street church on Dec. 29.
A church secretary broke up burglary, sending both men scampering over a granite wall. Kinney fell and knocked himself out while trying to run across the wall, and Harrington was arrested as he ran from the scene, police said.
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