A teenaged boy was fatally shot in Charlestown on the night of Tuesday, November 4.
The Boston Globe identified him as Ryan Morrissey, citing a post on the Facebook page of St. Clement School in Medford. Morrissey was a student at the school.
Charlestown police officers responded to a radio call for a person shot at about 9:40 pm. Officers found a 17-year-old male suffering from a gunshot wound to the head. The victim was transported to Mass General Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.
BPD’s full statement is below:
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A woman was fatally shot on Bowdoin Street in Dorchester on the afternoon of Saturday, November 8. Boston police responded to a radio call for a person shot in the area of 45 Bowdoin Street.
The victim, Audilia DaVeiga, 33, of Boston, was pronounced dead on the scene. The cause and manner of her death have not yet been determined.
Police named DeVeiga’s boyfriend, Paulo Rosa, as a suspect in the case, but he was found dead hours later, according to WBZ NewsRadio. Read more
Maria Sanchez, 26, of Mattapan, was stabbed at about 4:45 a.m. on Saturday, October 18 at 188 Washington Street in Dorchester, according to Boston Police.
Boston police said Sanchez was transported to Boston Medical Center, where she was later pronounced dead.
Police are still actively investigating the incident.
A full press release from BPD is after the jump.
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A man who died in a Roxbury fire on October 10 had suffered multiple stab wounds, police reported.
Members of the Boston Fire Department found the male victim inside the dwelling. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene by Boston EMS, police said.
After further investigation, police has revealed that the victim is 69-year-old Santo Alcadio Bernabel, of Hazelton, PA.
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A man was found stabbed in the area of 5 Ames Street in Dorchester Sunday midnight, police said.
According to police, the victim, whose identity has not been released, was stabbed at about 12:04 a.m.
Responding officers found the man with apparent stab wounds, police said. The victim was taken to Boston Medical Center where he was later pronounced dead.
Police said there was no further information on the incident Wednesday afternoon.
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Prosecutors have dropped a first-degree murder charge against Eric Barnes, 29, of Dorchester after a young woman named Brianna L. Erickson, a central witness in the case, died in jail. Authorities say the death was a suicide, but a close family friend says Erickson was distressed and feared for her safety.
“The evidence developed thus far by Boston Police homicide detectives and the district attorney’s office is that [Erickson’s death] was a non-homicide,” said Jake M. Wark, a spokesman for the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office, adding that his department pays special attention to deaths in custody.
Wark also said he has not obtained any information that Erickson was intimidated in jail.
“Obviously, if there was an allegation for that, we would look into it,” he said.
The testimony of Erickson, 22, who died while in South Bay House of Correction on May 8, 2014, was considered critical for Barnes’ trial to proceed. While the official investigation into her death is ongoing, the district attorney’s office said all evidence points to her taking her own life.
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Two Boston men charged with first-degree murder are facing prison terms in connection with a 2010 gang feud that left a middle school athlete dead.
Timothy Hearns, 24, and Ramano Silvelo-Miles, 24, pleaded guilty to reduced charges of manslaughter in a Suffolk Superior Courtroom Thursday after admitting their role in the slaying of 14-year-old Jaewon Martin on a basketball court four years earlier.
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Each week, Homicide Watch brings you a list of upcoming hearings in the cases we follow. All cases are heard at Suffolk Superior Court, located at 3 Pemberton Square in Boston, Mass.
On Tuesday, Sept. 2, Martin A. Jiminez, 44, will appear before a jury in a murder trial for the death of 33-year-old Melissa A. Hardy in June 2013.
Brian MacDonald, 26, charged with the murder of 21-year-old Anthony Spaulding in January 2013, will appear for a motion to continue trial hearing.
On Thursday, Sept. 4, Elias Sanchez, 44, accused of killing 29-year-old Edwin M. Santos in November 2013, will appear for a midpoint pretrial hearing.
Elias’ 17-year-old son Angel R. Sanchez and his 33-year-old brother Gabriel Sanchez, both of whom are implicated in the murder, will appear for midpoint pretrial hearings as well.
Please remember that all hearings are subject to change, even at the last minute. To confirm the time and date of homicide trial hearings, call the criminal clerk’s office at (617) 788-8160.
In brief:
There were no homicides reported this week in Boston.
On Monday, Aug. 25, Keith Williams, 18, was arraigned on first-degree murder charges for the Aug. 23 shooting death of 26-year-old Dawnn Jaffier. He will return to court on Oct. 14, 2014.
A Dorchester teen is being held without bail after allegedly gunning down a woman while she was marching in a parade this past weekend.
Keith Williams, 18, pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon at his arraignment in Dorchester Municipal Court Monday in connection with the Saturday morning murder of Dawn Jaffier, 26. He, along with two others, was detained shortly after the incident and initially held on gun charges.
According to prosecutors, the teen used a .357-caliber revolver to strike Jaffier and then threw it in a nearby yard. A second woman was hit with a bullet, but survived.
“Some might say she was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time,” said Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley. “But she was not – she had every right to stand on a busy street on a beautiful Saturday morning. She had every right, just as all our children have every right, to watch a parade without putting her life at risk.”
Conley went on to call her death an “outrage” and urged witnesses of her death to come forward.
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