A 32-year-old Mattapan man was found innocent Thursday of killing 49-year-old Brenda Pawlowski, but still faces up to 15 years in prison on weapons charges related to the 2011 homicide.
Pawlowski’s body was discovered on Feb. 8, 2011, at 7:15 a.m. in the backyard of 21 Kenney St. in Jamaica Plain. She had suffered a gunshot wound to the head.
Larry Pack of Mattapan and co-defendant Christopher Howard, both 32, were believed to have driven Pawlowski from her residence in Roxbury to the scene of the crime.
A press release from the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office below.
June 26, 2014
Split Verdict in Fatal JP Shooting
(BOSTON) — A Suffolk Superior Court jury today acquitted a man of murdering Brenda Pawlowski in Jamaica Plain three years ago, but found him guilty of possessing the weapon with which she was killed.
After about eight days of testimony and two days of deliberations, jurors found LARRY PACK (D.O.B. 5/3/82) of Mattapan not guilty of murder in Pawlowski’s Feb. 8, 2011, shooting death but convicted him of unlawful possession of a .45 caliber semiautomatic handgun ballistically matched to the slaying. Jurors also convicted Pack of possessing a silencer for that handgun, possessing Class A and Class B substances – cocaine and heroin – with intent to distribute, and possessing a firearm in the commission of a felony.
The firearm, silencer, and narcotics were recovered from Pack’s apartment after the execution of a search warrant less than a month after Pawloski was found dead of a gunshot wound in the area behind 21 Kenney St. Among other evidence, Prosecutors introduced phone records linking Pack to the victim in the hours preceding her murder, cell tower data that put him in the area of the shooting at the time it took place, witness testimony connecting him to the homicide, and criminalists who testified to a reasonable degree of ballistic certainty that the weapon in Pack’s home was the weapon that killed Pawlowski.
Pack faces at least five years for the firearm and up to 15 years as an armed career criminal when he is sentenced tomorrow morning in courtroom 806. He was represented by attorney Michael Doolin.
