{"id":337878,"date":"2025-10-28T07:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T07:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/337878\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T07:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T07:27:11","slug":"chicago-to-germany-flight-diverted-to-boston-after-two-teens-stabbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/337878\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago-to-Germany flight diverted to Boston after two teens stabbed"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Lufthansa flight from Chicago to Frankfurt, Germany, was diverted to Boston on Saturday after two teens were stabbed, allegedly by a 28-year-old man with a metal fork. File Photo by Bill Greenblatt\/UPI | License Photo<\/a><\/p>\n

Oct. 27 (UPI) — A Lufthansa flight from Chicago to Germany was diverted to Boston over the weekend after a 28-year-old man stabbed two minors with a metal fork, federal prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

Praneeth Kumar Usiripalli, 28, was charged<\/a> Monday with one count of assault with intent to do bodily harm while traveling on an aircraft in the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States.\n<\/p>\n

Lufthansa flight 431 departed Chicago O’Hare International Airport at 4:26 p.m. local time Saturday, en route to Frankfurt, Germany, but was diverted to Boston as it was flying over Canada’s Newfoundland and Labrador, according to air traffic tracker flightaware.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to federal prosecutors, the diversion was allegedly caused by Usiripalli.\n<\/p>\n

Court documents state that following meal service, a 17-year-old boy who had been sleeping in a middle seat awoke to the suspect standing over him. Usiripalli allegedly stabbed the teen in the left clavicle area with a metal fork.<\/p>\n

The suspect is then accused of lunging at a second 17-year-old boy who was sitting to the first victim’s right, stabbing him in the back of the head.<\/p>\n

As flight crew tried to restrain Usiripalli, he allegedly “formed a gun with his fingers, put it in his mouth and pulled an imaginary trigger.”\n<\/p>\n

He is also accused of slapping a female passenger and attempting to slap a flight crew member.<\/p>\n

According to flightaware, the flight landed at Logan International Airport at 10:48 p.m. On its arrival, Usiripalli was arrested and taken into police custody, federal prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

The Justice Department said Usiripalli, an Indian national, had no lawful status in the United States but had previously been admitted to the country on a student visa. He had been enrolled in a biblical studies master’s program.<\/p>\n

He is to expected to appear in a Boston federal court at a later date.<\/p>\n

If convicted, Usiripalli faces up to 10 years in prison, followed by up to three years of supervised release and a fine of $250,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Lufthansa flight from Chicago to Frankfurt, Germany, was diverted to Boston on Saturday after two teens were…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":337879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818,74900,52,1439],"class_list":{"0":"post-337878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois","11":"tag-law-and-crime","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-u-s"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115450615146033518","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}