Article: Roxbury man, 30, is charged in assault on MIT student

Two days after a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was slain near campus, another student was assaulted yesterday just blocks from the site of Friday's fatal stabbing.

Cambridge police said that a Roxbury man has been charged with beating and trying to rob an 18-year-old MIT freshman whom he allegedly struck on the head with a radio.

Ronald McMillan, 30, was apprehended almost immediately after the 6:30 p.m. altercation on Massachusetts Avenue near Albany Street, said MIT spokesman Ken Campbell.

The student, whom authorities declined to identify, was treated at MIT Medical Center and released, Campbell said.

The alleged assault follows the slaying of Yngve ...

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