A suspect has been arrested and charged in connection with two separate, unprovoked assaults reported in Portland’s Bayside neighborhood.

Witnesses flagged down officers around 8 a.m. Friday in the area of Oxford and Preble Streets, telling them a man had been stabbed. He suffered a severe neck wound and was taken to the hospital in critical condition.

Officers who were trying to track down the suspect came across another confrontation near Oxford and Cedar Streets, where that victim suffered non-life threatening injuries and was treated and released from the hospital.

Police identified the suspect as 35-year-old Joshua Rezendes, a local transient, and recovered an edged weapon that led officers to determine he was the suspect in the previous attack as well.

He was charged with assault and felony elevated aggravated assault and taken to Cumberland County Jail.

Police are still investigating and asking anyone with information to contact them. They say there is no additional threat to the public.