A man arrested in connection with the 2012 homicide of Hyde Park native Orlando Guerrero, 42, is being held without bail.
Luis Diaz, 29, of Dorchester, was indicted Thursday on charges of first-degree murder, armed robbery and illegal possession of a firearm. Diaz’s alleged accomplice, Jose “Joey” Carrasquillo, was arrested in March.
Guerrero was found shot at the Mandela Home housing project in Roxbury at about 11 a.m. on Dec. 15, 2012, suffering a gunshot wound to the head. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
A press release from the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office below.
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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.
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A double shooting left one man dead and another injured this weekend in Boston, authorities said.
In the early hours of Sunday, June 22, Boston police officers responded to a radio call at the intersection of School and Arcadia streets in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood. On arrival, officers found two 24-year-old males suffering from gunshot wounds. Both victims were transported to Brigham and Women’ Hospital, where one was pronounced deceased. The other sustained non-life-threatening injuries.
No names have been released, but cops said the incident does not appear to be random. An investigation is ongoing at this time.
A full update from BPD is after the jump.
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Authorities recovered a body floating in the Boylston Street and Charlesgate East area of Boston’s Muddy River around 9:30 a.m. Saturday morning, state police said. The victim, an adult male, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Boston police are currently investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident. They ask that any related information be called in to the Boston Police Homicide Unit at (617) 343-4470.
A copy of the incident report has been added below.
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A 31-year-old Dorchester man was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday in connection with the 2012 stabbing death of his 72-year-old neighbor, Mary Miller.
Miller was found by police on Feb. 21, 2012, at approximately 1:45 a.m. in her Codman Hill Avenue apartment after a relative called 911 to report a breaking and entering. She was announced dead at the scene.
Her upstairs neighbor Ted Nguyen pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for the homicide. He received an additional 10 years for burglary.
A press release from the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office below.
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In the moments before he assaulted, attempted to rob, and shot at two young men, aged 18 and 20, on Monsignor Lydon Way, John Graham, 19, laughed.
It was that laughter that Judge Linda Giles thought of Wednesday as she sentenced Graham to five to six years in prison for the crime, saying how strongly she recalled the witness who described it.
“What really struck me at trial,” Giles said, “was testimony from witnesses describing Mr. Graham’s behavior before and after [the shooting]… he laughed beforehand, and is quoted as saying ‘the guy started laughing and mocking me, so I shot them.’ That behavior disturbs me enormously,” she said.
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The gun buyback program launched last month in Boston is not a grand solution to the city’s gun violence, the program’s administrators agree.
Guns will not disappear from the streets of Dorchester, Roxbury and Mattapan. It will certainly not keep them from flowing into the city. But authorities hope the drive will help bring the problem to light and rouse the community against illegal firearms.
“What you see before you today is that our community is united,” Mayor Martin J. Walsh said when he unveiled the plan. “And we are united with them, in the goal of making our neighborhoods, our homes and our children safe.” Read more
The pleas surface soon after the killings.
On Facebook and fundraising websites, in obituaries and online memorials, families and friends ask for help burying the dead.
“We are raising money for a tombstone for Julien Jerome Printemps. …. Julien was a kind-hearted, generous, funny and loving person. He had a smile that could light up any room.”
“Now his family, particularly his mom, Della, need your financial help in celebrating his life, mourning his death, and putting the soul of this beautiful young man to rest. Andy’s short life life touched so many others in such a positive way. Please, if you can, give something back.” Read more
From the first day of his trial, nobody disputed that Deshawn Chappell beat, stabbed and cut the throat of mental health worker Stephanie Moulton inside a Revere group home in 2011.
But it took a three week trial to convict him last October, as a host of prosecution and defense psychologists offered conflicting opinions about whether the voices in Chappell’s head told him to do it.
Such debates can be quite lucrative for the expert witnesses involved.
The price tag for the defense’s losing argument over Chappell’s sanity and culpability came out to $42,256 for one forensic psychologist and $11,210 for a neuropsychologist who never testified, according to court records.
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A woman waiting in the wings of Suffolk Superior Courtroom is called to Room 817, where 16 jurors will be selected for an upcoming trial. She is one of 75 people who will face the same routine questions this Wednesday morning.
She is one of few who has trouble understanding the routine, in its English language.
“I understand very little,” she finally says when Judge Patrick Brady asks her if she has anything to tell the court. He’s looking for reasons people should not serve.
“But you understand me?,” he asks.
She repeats, “I said I understand little.”
The ten-second conversation is a followed by a swift decision to dismiss the Spanish speaker from jury duty. Read more
