Police respond to report of possibly armed man at apartment, Worcester MA

Suspicious Activity

Reported: 11/16/2025 07:32 AM

Near Austin St, Worcester, MA 01609

Police responded to a call reporting a man possibly armed with a knife at an apartment near Austin Street. Officers knocked on the apartment door several times with no answer and attempted to contact the man by phone. The caller confirmed the man's location and description; no knife was seen during the police check.

Audio|Source: Worcester City Police

02:45

Transcript:

00:00

Here right now,

00:01

no knife out. No knife out.

00:04

Where is he?

00:05

No scrape, no knife out.

00:09

No knife out.

00:11

All right, you can pull them down.

00:16

How can go ahead? I'll go down.

00:26

I'm with the snowcloth down.

00:30

Thank you. Call us to slow down the foster street.

00:35

So the good insight.

00:41

Go ahead.

00:48

Can we call the caller back and just confirm that he's at 86 Austin apartment 730?

01:02

Can we just ask the call where she was? Okay.

01:12

16.

01:17

Go ahead.

01:26

She says he's at 86 Austin Street, Whittier Terrace, Apartment 730, and the caller's at her house near Stanton Street.

01:37

We've knocked down apartment 730, four or five times known.

01:40

No one's answering.

01:43

Hey, just back, can you find out from her when he left near Stanton Street? Because I believe he's on foot, there's probably a little while to get here.

01:58

Lydia.

02:11

All right.

02:19

All right. Cade you face, can you know myself and Cable to the calls for?

02:23

Thank you.

02:25

60.

02:29

Go ahead.

02:30

I got his phone number from her.

02:31

I'm going to give him a call.

02:32

She didn't get a closing description he possibly has on a letter jacket.

02:36

But that is the address she confirmed to 86 Austin Street, Department 3, 730.

02:44

Okay, what's fill out of the problem waiting?

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