charged with murder in connection to a stabbing death outside an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting

city man has been charged with murder in connection to a stabbing death outside an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting Wednesday night.

Jonathan Keith Niemic, 22, of 127 Hawthorn St., was arrested around 3:10 this morning, according to the Bristol District Attorney’s office. The victim, Michael Correia, 34, of Fairhaven, was found gravely injured and transported to St. Luke’s Hospital, where he died from his wounds, the DA said. The investigation led state and local police to an apartment complex at 159 Rockaway St., where Niemic was arrested without incident.

Eyewitnesses said Correia was at the meeting and, during a break, was stabbed multiple times by a man who pulled up near the entrance of a building that witnesses identified as the "Trinity Church soup kitchen" near the corner of Purchase and School streets around 7:15.

A crowd of dozens gathered near the crime scene in the aftermath of the attack. Some sipped coffee, others smoked cigarettes, others tried to get their cars moved before police cordoned off the block with yellow tape. Everyone was talking about the stabbing.

Accounts and narratives differed. Some said two people drove up in a silver SUV and a man exited the vehicle and stabbed the victim. Some said yelling and "commotion" could be heard from inside the building during the scuffle. Others said there did not appear to be any extensive argument before the violence erupted.