BOSTON -- Marlborough police arrested and charged a Broad Street man Sunday with allegedly trying to kill his 80-year-old landlord with a frying pan.

They said he also attacked another resident who tried to intervene, the MetroWest Daily News reported.

Police said Edward Ablazey, 46, of 52 Broad St., Apt. 3, broke into his landlord's room about 11 p.m. and began to hit and choke him. They said he was dressed in black clothes and was wearing a ski mask.

Ablazey was in the process of being evicted, police said, and had been arrested in December on a property damage charge.

Ablazey was charged with attempted murder, assault and battery on a person over 60, intimidating a witness, larceny under $250, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon on a person over 60, police said.

He was held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing.

The landlord was taken the UMass Medical Center and treated for multiple lacerations to his face, ear, neck and head, police told the MetroWest newspaper.