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September 27, 2006

Police arrest man wanted for murder in N. Attleboro

NORTH ATTLEBORO – The police have captured a man they considered armed and dangerous who was wanted for the murder early this morning of a local man and the assault of a local woman.

Cory J. Hood, 25, will be arraigned this afternoon on charges of first-degree murder and assault with intent to murder.

The police have identified the murder victim as Michael J. Liss, 25, of 85 Johnson St., North Attleboro. He was found dead this morning at that address. The police also identified the assault victim as Terra M. Marvitz, 20, also of North Attleboro.

Hood was on the run this morning, last seen driving a gray 2004 Ford pickup with the Massachusetts plate 93EP37, according to a news release issued by Police Chief Michael P. Gould Sr.

The police and fire rescue crews responded to Johnson Street after several residents called around 2:15 a.m. to report that a woman covered in blood said she had been stabbed and needed help.

The woman, now identified as Marvitz, who had “obvious lacerations to her body,” was taken to Rhode Island Hospital. She was listed in serious condition at 10 this morning.

Based on what the woman told police, officers went to 85 Johnson St., where they found Liss dead on the floor with “severe wounds to the body, an apparent victim of a homicide,” according to the police statement.

Hood was arrested around 9:15 a.m. today after a Norton, Mass., police officer and a Massachusetts State Police trooper with a dog found him in the woods along Dean Street, Norton.

About two hours earlier, the Norton police notified the North Attleboro police that they had found Hood's truck on Dean Street, near the Rehoboth line.

He was arrested without any problems.

-- projo.com staff writer Kate Bramson

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