Story by Sandy Giordano and Curtis Walsh – Beaver County Radio. Published April 17, 2023 10:23 A.M.

(New Brighton, PA) Christopher M. Boswell was issued an arrest warrant Thursday, April 13, 2023 by New Brighton Police on aggravated assault charges and attempt or attempts to cause or causes bodily injury with a deadly weapon. He is also charged with reckless endangerment of another person and simple assault. Police were dispatched to 753 Grove Avenue, New Brighton where a male, Steve Matthews reported that he was assaulted by an unknown male.  He said the same male approached him and his girlfriend in the 900 block of Third Avenue at 1910 hours on April 10, 2023.  He said the male, identified as Boswell, asked about the location of a bar. As he continued to his vehicle driver’s side door when someone was walking behind his vehicle, he recalled the male mumbling something about a knife, and confirmed it was the same man from earlier in the evening, he made a stabbing motion to Matthew’s car door. Matthew’s was able to physically direct the male’s motion and arm away from him, and he stumbled toward the vehicle’s front side. Matthews directed his girlfriend to go inside, as the male staggered north on Grove Avenue toward Valley Avenue. Matthew’s went inside his home, and was bleeding heavily from his left hand, and noticed a clean 1 inch laceration between his index finger and thumb, he reported that the cut had to have come from a very sharp blade, because the cut wasn’t jagged.