ID Released For Fatal Stabbing Victim; Western Mass Officers Nab Suspect

Police in Hampden County identified the man stabbed in broad daylight last week in Chicopee and said they found the man who wielded the knife.

Alex Ramos
Photo Credit: *Hampden District Attorney*

Josh Lanier

08/11/2023 11:05 a.m.

Maurice Crump, 24, was found bleeding out in the 90 block of West Street around 3 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 6, Chicopee police said. Paramedics rushed him to Baystate Medical Center, but doctors could not save his life.

Alex Ramos, 21, of Chicopee, was arrested days later and charged with Crump's murder and one count of misleading police, authorities said.

He was being held on a $10,000 bond, authorities said. He will return to court on Sept. 7.

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