LOWELL — A homicide suspect who had been at massive for almost 10 days after he allegedly shot and killed 26-year-old Odogwu Ganobi, of Lowell, over a site visitors dispute earlier this month is behind bars.
Rafael Garcia-Rey, 21, who prosecutors mentioned shot Ganobi within the abdomen with a .40-caliber handgun on Nov. 15, within the Highlands neighborhood, turned himself in to police on Thursday, in keeping with Garcia-Rey’s legal professional, Jeanne Earley.
Garcia-Rey was arraigned on the cost of homicide in Lowell District Court on Friday morning, the place Judge John Coffey ordered he be held with out bail.
During Garcia-Rey’s roughly three-minute look earlier than Coffey, Middlesex Assistant District Attorney Whitney Williams offered some particulars of the grisly crime, which the prosecutor mentioned was “essentially over a road rage incident.”
The alleged capturing befell within the space of Maitland Avenue and Chelmsford Street, at about 7 p.m. Nov. 15. According to Williams, Ganobi had approached a automobile, the place Garcia-Rey was a passenger, and advised the motive force to maneuver. A verbal altercation ensued between Ganobi, the automobile’s driver and Garcia-Rey.
Ganobi approached Garcia-Rey, at which level Williams mentioned the 21-year-old shot him with the handgun. The prosecutor identified that the handgun used was illegally owned.
The alleged violence was captured by surveillance cameras within the space.
“After the incident, the defendant put the firearm in his hoodie pocket and ran on foot,” Williams advised Coffey. “He had been at large since then.”
Ganobi was rushed to Tufts Medical Center in Boston, the place he was pronounced lifeless the next morning.
The Middlesex District Attorney’s Office and the Lowell Police Department launched data on the capturing on Nov. 16, asking for the general public’s assist in the investigation. On Wednesday, authorities recognized Garcia-Rey because the suspected shooter, and introduced {that a} warrant had been issued for his arrest. Earley revealed on Friday that Garcia-Rey turned himself in to police on Thanksgiving.
In addition to the arrest warrant for the homicide cost, Garcia-Rey was needed on one other warrant for unlicensed operation of a motorized vehicle and failure to cease for police following an incident in Lowell on Oct. 20.
Earley requested a bail listening to for Garcia-Rey, which can be held in Lowell District Court on Dec. 28.
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