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Suspect Caught In Fatal Shooting Of 22-Year-Old Mass Man: DA
The suspect in a fatal Middlesex County shooting that left a 22-year-old man dead just one block away from his home has been apprehended months after fleeing the state, officials said. Waltham resident Josh Pierre, age 21, was arrested in Miramar, Florida on Friday, Sept. 22 in connection with the May 2023 murder of 22-year-old Waltham resident Shelson Jules, the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office announced on Wednesday, Oct. 4. Earlier Report - 'Compassionate' Waltham Man, 22, Dies 1 Block From Home, Family Met With Incredible Generosity According to the DA's O…
Police & Fire
Accused Quincy Teen Killer Arrested In Puerto Rico, Returned To Mass: DA
A man police say shot and killed 17-year-old Nathan Paul in Quincy last year and fled to Puerto Rico has been arrested and brought back to Massachusetts, the Norfolk County District Attorney said. Keniel Diaz-Romero, formerly of Quincy, will be arraigned later this week on charges of murder, larceny from a person, possession of a counterfeit bill, uttering a counterfeit bill, conspiracy to commit larceny, and unlawfully carrying a firearm, the prosecutor said. Diaz-Romero is the sixth and final suspect to be charged in the killing of the Weymouth High School senior on Feb. 15, …
Police & Fire
14-Year-Old Gunned Down Teenage Woman In Lawrence: DA
A 14-year-old Lawrence boy was arrested and charged with shooting and killing a Lawrence woman on the street, authorities said. Jobe Santiago is charged with murder following the Sept. 6 killing of Angie Aristy near 300 Howard St., the Essex County District Attorney. He is being tried as an adult. A second teenager was charged with assault with an attempt to rob in the killing, the prosecutor said. Related: Loved Ones Starts GoFundMe For Murdered 19-Year-Old Lawrence Aristy's friends and family posted several memorials to the woman on social media following her killing. Many wrote s…
Police & Fire
Search For Fugitive Northeast Killer Now 'Nationwide' Manhunt, Police Say
Danelo Cavalcante has somehow slipped by the hundreds of law enforcement officers in Pennsylvania and neighboring states searching for him in the Longwood Gardens, and though authorities believe he is still in Pennsylvania, they are now describing the search as a "nationwide" manhunt. The 34-year-old fugitive killer was captured on home surveillance footage on the porch of a residence in northern Chester County near Phoenixville, sometime late Saturday, Sept. 9, Pennsylvania State Police said. By Sunday morning, Sept. 10, troopers said they had received leads that Cavalcante was no longer…
Obituaries
'He Gave Me Strength': Mom Of Lynn Teen Stabbed To Death Asks For Help
Karelis Santeliz said her son Daniel was a smart, loving, and vibrant young man who didn't deserve to die in a fight at a Lynn convenience store last week. But she wants to give him the burial he deserves, so she's turning to the internet for help. Daniel Marquez Santeliz, 17, was stabbed during a fight Tuesday, Aug. 22, at the Alpha Convenience Store at Freeman Square, Lynn police said. He died soon after at Salem Hospital. Related: Teen Pleads Not Guilty To Fatal Lynn Stabbing Of 17-Year-Old: DA Iram Allen Jr., 15, of Lynn, is being charged as an ad…
Police & Fire
Man Accused Of Dismembered Roommate Nabbed 6 Years After Murder In Eastern Mass: Police
A man wanted for murdering and disemboweling his roommate in 2017 was caught in Middlesex County on Thursday, Aug. 24, officials said. John Hallett, age 54, was arrested at his apartment at 15 Chester Street in Cambridge on an outstanding murder warrant, according to the Massachusetts State Police. Hallett is accused of beating his roommate with a blunt object before choking him to death in 2017 in Michigan City, Indiana, per a police investigation. Hallett then disemboweled the body and stashed various body parts in multiple public trash cans, police said. In A…
Police & Fire
Teen, 15, Pleads Not Guilty To Murder In Fatal Lynn Stabbing Of 17-Year-Old: DA
A 15-year-old boy is being tried as an adult in the killing of a 17-year-old at a Lynn gas station Tuesday night, authorities said. Iram Allen Jr., 15, of Lynn, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to murder in the fatal stabbing of Daniel Marquez Santeliz at Alpha Convenience Store, the Essex County District Attorney's Office said. He was ordered held without bail. Investigators say a fight broke out between a group of teenagers at the Freeman Square store around 6 p.m. In the melee, police say, Allen stabbed Marquez Santeliz and ran away. Doctors at Salem Hospital pronounced M…
Police & Fire
Murder Conviction: Gold Chain Helps Land 'Career Criminal' In Prison For Life: DA
A 34-year-old Middlesex County man convicted this summer of gunning down a man in a parking lot in 2017 was given a life sentence this week, authorities said. Tony Dyshaun Harris, of Everett, was found guilty of murder, carrying a firearm without a license, possession of ammunition without a license, and carrying a loaded firearm without a license on June 6, the Middlesex District Attorney said on Thursday, Aug. 17. A judge found him guilty of being a career armed criminal in July because of his previous conviction for a violent assault. Harris shot and killed 20-year-old&n…
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Man Convicted Of Killing Teen In 1991 On Malden Fire Escape: DA
The family of a 17-year-old girl who was executed on her third-story fire escape in Malden 32 years ago finally knows who killed her. Rodney Daniels was convicted of first-degree murder on Wednesday, Aug. 16, in the fatal shooting of Patricia Moreno on July 20, 1991, the Middlesex District Attorney's Office said. The prosecutor's office and police re-examined her killing as part of a cold case unit investigation in 2020. That meant re-interviewing witnesses, re-examining the evidence with new technology, and recreating the crime scene at 21 Henry St. Daniels was a su…
Police & Fire
Man Behind Murder-Suicide, Shooting 2 Kids In Springfield Home ID'd By Police
Police have identified the man they say killed a grandmother and shot two of her grandchildren in a Springfield home Monday, Aug. 14, before he turned the gun on himself. Victor Nieves, 34, of Springfield, is believed to have killed Kim Fairbanks, 52, of Springfield, at 174 Berkshire Ave. just after 2:30 p.m., the Hampden District Attorney's Office said. Fairbanks' three grandchildren — ages 12, 10, and 5 — were also in the home at the time of the attack. Two were seriously wounded. The 10-year-old girl remains in critical condition after being airlifted to Boston…
Police & Fire
Estranged Husband Killed Wife As She Sat In Her Car In Everett Driveway: Jury
A 58-year-old Peabody man was convicted Tuesday, Aug. 8, of gunning down his estranged wife a month after she requested a divorce in 2018, authorities announced. Emilio Matarazzo was found guilty of first-degree murder in the slaying of Ersilia Cataldo Matarazzo following a 16-day trial in Middlesex County, the Middlesex District Attorney said. A judge will sentence him on Thursday. Ersilia was sitting in her car in her parents' driveway in Everett on the morning of Dec. 19, 2018, when her soon-to-be ex-husband ambushed her and shot her in the chest with a Beretta .12-gauge…
Police & Fire
Mom of 2, Girlfriend Of Suspect ID'd As Victim In Salem Murder Case: DA
A 33-year-old Pablo Vicente man is charged with killing the mother of his two children and dumping her body, authorities announced Tuesday, Aug. 8. Nayeli Nieves, 20, of Salem, was reported missing on Monday from the home where she lived with Vicente and their 3-year-old and 18-month-old children, investigators said. They are being cared for by the Department of Children and Families. Salem police said officers received a tip that Vincente had harmed Nieves and began investigating him. Related: Salem Man Charged In Missing Woman's Murder While Vincente was arraigned on a murder charg…
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