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Man arrested for daytime stabbing of a wheelchair user in Burlington

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Christopher Thompson

By VDC staff

Christopher Thompson of Burlington was taken into custody by Burlington police without incident on Elmwood Avenue around 2 p.m. on Sept. 9. He is being held without bail pending his arraignment scheduled for 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 10.

According to a police statement, detectives identified Thompson as the suspect in an aggravated assault that occurred nearly three weeks earlier. On the morning of Aug. 22, when a wheelchair-bound victim reported being stabbed in the face near Lake Street and Depot Street. The attack happened about 30 minutes before police were called at 9:59 a.m. Officers determined the victim and suspect did not know each other. The attacker fled on foot and was last seen in the area of Sherman Street and North Champlain Street.

Thompson has a significant criminal record in Vermont, including prior convictions for assault and robbery as well as aggravated assault with a weapon. At the time of the August stabbing, he was already out on pretrial release conditions after a July 2026 arrest for assault and robbery. During that earlier arrest he resisted officers, and a Burlington police officer was injured.

Police thanked the DEA’s Burlington resident office for help with the investigation. Anyone with additional information is asked to contact Detective Randy Webster at 802-540-2145.

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  1. Burlington Vermont is a place that keeps on giving you a reason never to go there. Comment from Richard Day.

  2. Looking at the picture and my thought is that there’s more ammunition for the left claiming the police are targeting blacks. Statistics don’t lie, just mislead. For some it’s all about the color, not the crime..

  3. Great police work by the Burlington Police Department, but unfortunately it is also a textbook example of the results of the catch and release used by our judicial system

  5. Commence to do the Golden Rule “do unto others——.” He should know what it feels like the absolute brainless SOB. There’s a big lake nearby. Complete worthless piece of trash. Lock and load.

  6. Aggravated assault – he fled.
    Previous convictions for assault & robbery.
    Previous convictions for aggravated assault with a weapon.
    On release for assault & robbery in July. Police officer injured.
    Where do the rest of us sign up for such kid-glove treatment?

    • Most of us would have to spend a serious amount of time in a tanning booth to get the same kid-glove treatment we all expect Sarah George to bestow upon him.

  7. Meanwhile in Gotham city, life continues to imitate art. As liberals lubricate the revolving door on the courthouse. Maniacal cackling erupts from the office of Madame malfeasance. Our compassionate so called prosecutor.

  8. The only issue here should be Sarah George’s general failing to hold thieves and violent criminals of all kinds accountable. Comments going on about race since the latest beneficiary of her awful leadership was not white just poison the discussion.

  9. looks like a fine upstanding Vermont native here, someone get this POS off the streets, and Sarah George, you suck!

  10. I must be missing something here!
    “Significant criminal Record “ he stabbed this person while OUT on pre trial release for ASSAULT and ROBBERY! And injured a police officer in an earlier arrest! I feel real safe in Burlington how about YOU!