Three held on bail after being indicted in stabbing of teenage lifeguard at Bell Pond

WORCESTER — Three city men charged in the July 4 stabbing of a teenage lifeguard at Bell Pond were arraigned Friday after being indicted in Worcester Superior Court. 

Celestine Bigirimana, Mohamed Abdullahi and Pedro Camacho were ordered held on bails ranging from $5,000 to $25,000, court records show. 

The three were arrested after a July 4 crime at Bell Pond in which a 17-year-old lifeguard was stabbed. Police have said the stabbing took place after the lifeguard, who was on his fourth day of work, warned a group of people not to drink or smoke. 

Prosecutors have alleged that Camacho, 21, is the person who stabbed the lifeguard, who was also allegedly beaten with a stick during the attack.

Camacho was ordered held on $20,000 cash, court records show, on two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and one count of assault and battery on a public employee. 

Bigirimana, 22, and Abdullahi, 19, are each charged with one count of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and one count of assault and battery on a public employee, records show. 

Bigirimana was ordered held on $25,000 cash, while Abdullahi was ordered held on $5,000 cash. 

All three men would, if bailed, be ordered confined to their homes and tracked with GPS monitoring, court records show. 

Police at the time of the stabbing did not detail the extent of the lifeguard’s injury. He was taken to the hospital in an ambulance. 

The men arraigned Friday in the attack had previously been charged in Central District Court. A judge there had ordered Bigirimana and Abdullahi held without bail for up to 120 days in mid-July following dangerousness hearings. 

Prosecutors at that hearing noted Bigirimana is on probation from Superior Court for a case involving the attempted robbery of a cab driverwho was struck with a flashlight and that Abdullahi was on pretrial release in a larceny case.

All three men are due back in court Oct. 26 for pretrial conferences. 

Bell Pond was closed after the attack, and the city, citing staffing shortages, kept it closed throughout August.