Quincy woman assaults, robs man with cancer at MBTA Station

QUINCY, Mass. — A Quincy woman has been arrested for assaulted and robbing a man at the MBTA Quincy Center Station, police say.

On August 3, Transit Police were called to the MBTA Quincy Center Station for a reported assault. The 31-year-old victim told police he was at the station when a woman he knew approached him and started talking to him. He said he had recently been diagnosed with an inoperable sarcoma tumor and he thinks the woman was using his health condition to get close to him. While they were talking, the man told police she took his wallet out of his pocket. When he noticed, he demanded she give it back. That’s when the woman punched him in the face and took off.

The woman was quickly identified as 28-year-old Kellilynn Johnson of Quincy. Police say she had an unrelated warrant for her arrest out of Quincy for three counts of assault and battery.

Johnson was arrested by police on the existing warrant and the alleged assault from August 3.

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