Man allegedly stabbed in Dorchester parking spot dispute

A man allegedly stabbed someone during a dispute over a shoveled parking space in Dorchester early Wednesday morning.

Enel Janvier, 47, pleaded not guilty to a charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon causing bodily injury at an arraignment at Dorchester District Court Wednesday afternoon.

Prosecutors had requested bail, but Janvier was released on personal recognizance.

According to a Boston Police report, officers arrested Janvier after responding to the report of a fight at on Evans Street around 1:25 a.m. When they arrived, police saw two individuals with white trash bags around their right hands, which were “bleeding heavily.” There was also blood on the sidewalk, walkways, and snowbanks.

Through interviews in Spanish and Haitian Creole, officers were told both by a male victim and Janvier that Janvier had parked in a spot the victim had shoveled. When the man asked Janvier to move, they got into an argument.

Janvier told police that he didn’t want to move from the space because the victim already had a vehicle parked in another space in front of the building “that had been sitting their since the snowstorm and was inoperable,” the report said.

The fight escalated after Janveir’s wife allegedly passed him a large kitchen knife. Janvier said he was handed the knife after the victim started punching him. Police said that they didn’t note any injuries on Janvier.

Janvier then allegedly stabbed the victim, who had “a hole/gash in his right hand under his thumb area,” according to the report. BPD had said that the woman, Janvier’s wife, was injured when trying intervene.

Both the male victim and Janvier’s wife were transported to a local hospital to treat their injuries.

Janvier is expected back in court on April 2 for a pretrial hearing.

This isn’t the first time that a fight over a parking space, post snow storm, has led to violence — or a stabbing — in Boston. The Herald has reported on a number tire slashings, fist fights, and even a 2010 stabbing.

Often the fights are over spots claimed with “space savers,” items that range from traffic cones to toilets. Bostonians are allowed to use space savers until 48 hours after a snow emergency is lifted. Following the last storm, that meant residents could only use space savers until 8 p.m. Wednesday Jan. 28, though many were still laying claim to spots around the city a week later.