Homicide Watch Boston

Jan. 9 marked the first two homicides of 2014, the same day Mayor Martin Walsh appointed Boston police veteran William Evans as the department’s commissioner. William Earl, 20, pleaded innocent to fatally stabbing Samuel Constant, 19, on Margaretta Drive in Hyde Park. A witness told the Boston Globe that Earl stabbed Constant during an argument. … Read more →

William Earl was officially indicted for first-degree murder Friday for the fatal January stabbing of 19-year-old Samuel Constant, prosecutors said. Earl, 20, was arraigned Jan. 10 in West Roxbury District Court. Friday’s indictment moves the case to Suffolk Superior Court. Earl allegedly stabbed Constant multiple times outside of Constant’s girlfriend’s Hyde Park apartment, according to … Read more →