A stabbing rampage that left two victims dead and several others injured ended when an off-duty police officer fatally shot the suspect.
Plymouth County Sheriff's Deputy Jimmy Creed was off-duty "with his bride, just having dinner," when the chaos unfolded, police sources told ABC News.
They were dining at Bertucci's Italian restaurant in the Galleria Mall in Taunton, about 40 miles south of Boston.
Suspect Arthur DaRosa had walked into the restaurant and "armed himself with a knife and stabbed two people," District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III said in a statement released early this morning.
The statement says that the officer "intervened and shot" DaRosa, 28.
"It appears that but for the actions of the deputy sheriff, there may very well have been other victims," Quinn said in the statement.
Creed unlikely knew that Bertucci's was the third stop in DaRosa's alleged spree that night. The violence reportedly began after he was involved in a car crash at around 7:00 p.m.
DaRosa left his vehicle and "gained access" to a nearby home, where he allegedly stabbed two women who were inside.
He then drove to the Silver City Galleria Mall and crashed into the front door of Macy's. DaRosa assaulted "multiple" people inside the store and then moved on to Bertucci's, police said.
One of the two women from the home, an 80-year-old whose identity has not been released, died at a hospital and the second woman "is being treated for life-threatening injuries."
The other fatality was a 56-year-old man who was eating dinner with his family at the Italian restaurant when DaRosa stabbed him, police sources told ABC News.
A pregnant woman left the same restaurant indicating that she had been wounded, police sources say, but no further details about her condition have been confirmed.
Police are still searching for the motive and investigators are combing through the multiple crime scenes.
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