One person was taken to the hospital after a stabbing in East Boston on Friday afternoon.
Investigators swarmed a Brandywyne Drive apartment community Friday after a call came in that a resident had been stabbed.
The resident, a deaf woman, was brought to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
"I never would have thought it would be her," said resident Elizabeth Clay.
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Neighbors say the woman who was stabbed is deaf, very friendly, and well-known at the Brandywyne Village apartments.
Police say a potential suspect was taken into custody, but they haven't revealed what the motive for the crime may have been.
They have not said if the two had any connection, or if this was a random attack.
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"She didn't have enemies," said neighbor Camille Racca.
Neighbors say they heard the woman screaming in the middle of the afternoon, and then she ran to the office for help.
"It's too bad somebody would pick on somebody that's deaf," said Racca.
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