ANOKA, Minn. -- Police are calling it a random act of violence... a stabbing outside an Anoka business that sent a man to the hospital this week.

It happened early Wednesday afternoon outside this Dairy Queen on West Main Street. Witnesses say 18-year-old Braxton Rabago walked up to a customer getting into his car and stabbed him multiple times in the head and chest. The 55-year-old victim was taken to Mercy Hospital where he was treated for stab wounds.

The suspect's roomate told police Rabago had been making a turn for the worse in his life. He's since been charged with two counts of assault.

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