A Buzzards Bay man who was accused of stabbing another man in the face in West Tisbury last year pleaded guilty in Dukes County Superior Court Tuesday to a charge of assault to murder. 

Joseph Feliciano, 27, was sentenced to five years in the house of corrections after also pleading guilty to mayhem, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and assault and battery on ambulance personnel. 

In May 2024, West Tisbury police were called to a home on Buttonwood Farm Road in West Tisbury for a report of a man being stabbed in the eye. A woman at the home said Mr. Feliciano had been visiting, but had overstayed his welcome, according to a police report. When the family tried to get Mr. Feliciano to leave, he became angry and got into a fight with the family. 

The woman told police that Mr. Feliciano swung a knife at her and tried to stab her in the midsection before stabbing her fiance in the eye, according to the report. 

Mr. Feliciano also allegedly pushed a hospital nurse while he was being checked out at Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. 

Mr. Feliciano will be on probation for three years after his sentence.