Dennis Bowen, a 22-year-old Chelsea man, will be arraigned today in Chelsea District Court on charges that he fatally stabbed Carlos Ramirez, a 30-year-old Chelsea man, on Thanksgiving. State police arrested Bowen on Saturday night. Bowen had turned himself in to police after a Chelsea District Court judge issued a…
Dwayne Moore was charged yesterday with four counts of murder and with assault with intent to murder in connection with the shooting executions of four people, including a toddler, in Mattapan. Kimani Washington, Moore’s alleged associate, has been charged with gun law violations, and it is unclear whether he will…
William Shakespeare would have been puzzled with this one. As you have probably noticed, the news in the Boston area lately has been replete with shootings, murders and other varying assaults. Some are alleged drug-related. Others come from domestic violence matters. Lynnfield, however, was the host of a murder-suicide this…
Joseph Cummings, 51, allegedly killed his pregnant girlfriend, 35-year-old Kimberly Nguyen, her sister, and himself over the baby’s last name. The two shared a home on Ledge Road in Lynnfield. Allegedly they got into an argument in their bedroom because she wanted to hyphenate the name and he did not.…
Nine years after the death of former federal intern Chandra Levy, Ingmar Guandique has been found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder. It took the jury 3 ½ days of deliberations to reach its verdict. Although prosecutors had originally charged Guandique with nine criminal counts, including first-degree murder, attempted…
Bristol County prosecutors announced today that John Loflin has been charged with the 2002 murder of Marlene Rose, whose body was found on New Bedford railroad tracks. Rose had been strangled. Until today, no one had been charged in connection with Rose’s death, but forensic science and new evidence have…
Two were left dead and two are injured after a shooting in a Jamaica Plan restaurant Sunday night. It happened around 7:30 p.m. at the Sam Old Place on Centre Street. Mario Bailote, the 40-year-old manager of the Restaurant, said that a man came into the pizza place and began…
A mutilated body was found in an upscale Milton neighborhood on Monday night. Police told the Boston Globe that the mutilation was extensive and gruesome. Residents are shocked that the body was found in their neighborhood, and police are looking into the possibility that the body was dumped there. The…
Two Newton teenagers, 17-year-old Benjamin Peirce and 18-year-old Shaquan Jacobs, were arraigned Wednesday in Superior Court in Woburn on murder, armed robbery and firearms charges. Both pleaded not guilty. The charges arose from the September fatal shooting of Adam Coveney, a 29-year-old Waltham man. Prosecutors allege that the teens arranged…
Boston’s homicide toll continued to rise as two were killed over the weekend. Thomas Whitley, a 30-year old Roxbury man, and an unidentified teenager were killed, marking the 62nd and 63rd homicides this year. At this time last year, the homicide toll was 43. Whitley, a father of four, was…