A Knife Hidden in a Shopping Bag at a Framingham Market
A masked man carried a large kitchen knife hidden in a shopping bag into Framingham's Dubom Supermarket on a weekday morning. Police arrested a suspect days later.
Scene imagery is illustrative — not the actual locationAround 8:45 on a Wednesday morning in October 2025, a man walked into Dubom Supermarket on Worcester Road in Framingham. According to Framingham police, he had a large kitchen knife hidden inside a store shopping bag and wore a beanie hat with holes cut out to cover his face.
A cashier who was working told police the man spoke to her in Brazilian Portuguese during the attempted robbery. The hat he used as a mask was later found in a nearby dumpster, police said.
Police released surveillance images and asked the public for help. Within days, the department announced that a 42-year-old Framingham man had been taken into custody in connection with the robbery. No serious injuries were reported.
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Sources: NENA 911 call-processing standard (STA-020.1-2020) · FBI, Active Shooter Incidents 2000–2013 · City of Boston, Boston About Results — BPD Performance Report. Boston's figure is its last published Priority 1 median, call receipt to arrival. Incident timing is from the FBI's study of timed violent incidents. Respect for the officers who answer these calls, always — this is arithmetic, not blame.
This could have been any of us.
This wasn't the middle of the night in an empty parking lot. It was 8:45 in the morning at a busy neighborhood supermarket on Route 9 — a store where families shop, in a city of 70,000 people. The cashier was a few minutes into an ordinary workday. Morning errands are exactly when most of us feel safest, and that is what makes an incident like this one stick.
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Sources: Boston Police Department (BRIC year-end report) · FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, Crime in the U.S. 2019 · OSHA news release citing NIOSH (2019 data)
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