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TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) — The Latest on stabbing attacks at a Massachusetts shopping mall and home (all times local): 2 p.m. Authorities are hailing three people as heroes for intervening when a man went on a stabbing rampage at a home and a shopping mall in Taunton. District Attorney Thomas Quinn III said Arthur DaRosa was shot and killed by James Creed, an off-duty deputy sheriff who was eating dinner at Bertucci's in the Silver City Galleria on Tuesday when DaRosa stabbed two people. The prosecutor said teacher George Heath was in Bertucci's and tried to get the knife away from DaRosa. Heath was fatally stabbed. Waitress Sheenah Savoy suffered serious injuries. DaRosa also beat three women in Macy's, where an unidentified store employee tried to stop him. Quinn said the rampage began after DaRosa left his daughter's soccer practice, crashed his car, then walked into a home and fatally stabbed 80-year-old Patricia Slavin. Her 58-year-old daughter, Kathleen, received serious injuries. ___ 12:30 p.m. Authorities have identified the second victim who was fatally stabbed by a man who went on a rampage at a home and later attacked people at a shopping mall. Eighty-year-old Patricia Slavin was killed, while her 58-year-old daughter, Kathleen Slavin, was seriously injured when Arthur DaRosa walked into their home while they were eating dinner Tuesday. Bristol District Attorney Thomas Quinn III said DaRosa then drove to the Silver City Galleria and crashed his car into a Macy's department store, where he beat three women. Quinn said DaRosa then walked to a Bertucci's restaurant in the mall, where he stabbed a waitress multiple times. She survived, but DaRosa fatally stabbed George Heath, a teacher who tried to take the knife from him. DaRosa was shot and killed by an off-duty Plymouth County deputy sheriff. ___ 9:30 a.m. One of the people killed by a man who went on a stabbing rampage in Massachusetts has been identified as a teacher. The superintendent-director of Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical School says George Heath was a visual design teacher there. The 56-year-old Heath was fatally stabbed Tuesday at the Silver City Galleria mall in Taunton. Superintendent-director James O'Brien called Heath a "true gentleman" who had worked at the school for four years. O'Brien says, "Heath was a tremendous educator with a great passion for teaching; he was influential in sparking creativity and a love of learning in all of his students." Authorities say assailant Arthur DaRosa also killed an 80-year-old woman before he was shot and killed by an off-duty sheriff's deputy. DaRosa's family says he was mentally disturbed. ___ 7:45 a.m. Family members of the man who killed two people during a rampage in Massachusetts say he was mentally ill and has just been released from a hospital psychiatric ward. Arthur DaRosa was shot and killed by an off-duty sheriff's deputy after fatally stabbing one person at the Silver City Galleria mall in Taunton on Tuesday, shortly after he stabbed an 80-year-old woman in her home. Kerri Devries, DaRosa's sister, tells the Boston Herald her brother has been battling depression for years. She says he has recently been suicidal, and the "devil was playing tricks on him." She says he was admitted to the hospital Monday. DaRosa's father, also Arthur DaRosa, tells the newspaper he was surprised when his son returned from the hospital Tuesday morning, but said he appeared "normal" and calm." ___ 2:30 a.m. Authorities are trying to determine why a man went on a stabbing rampage in Massachusetts, killing two people and assaulting and stabbing more in a house and a shopping mall before being shot dead. The suspect in Tuesday's attacks has been identified as 28-year-old Arthur DaRosa. Authorities say it all began when DaRosa crashed a car outside of a house in the city. They say he walked inside the home and stabbed two women, including an 80-year-old who later died. Authorities say DaRosa then drove to the Silver City Galleria mall, where he crashed into the front of Macy's department store. They say he assaulted multiple people inside the store before running to Bertucci's restaurant and stabbing two more people, including a 56-year-old man who died at a hospital. An off-duty sheriff's deputy then fatally shot DaRosa.

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