A second man has been arrested for the taking pictures homicide of 15-year-old Curtis Ashford Jr.
Thursday’s arrest of Zontre Mack, 19, of Canton, in reference to Ashford’s July 27 homicide adopted the Sept. 26 arrest of Dominick Gavin, 25, of Boston.
“The shooting death of a 15-year-old should not — and must not — become an event affecting only the victim’s loved ones and those of us responsible for bringing the offenders to justice,” Suffolk DA Kevin Hayden stated in a Friday assertion following Mack’s arraignment.
“This crime should shock and outrage everyone, and should make all of us work together to reduce these shattering acts of violence,” he continued. “I have a 15-year-old son. My heart and soul break with sorrow for Curtis’s family.”
Judge Erika Reis ordered Mack held with out bail when he appeared in municipal court docket in Dorchester on Friday on costs of homicide and possession of a firearm with no license. Gavin was arraigned in September and can be being held with out bail.
Ashford was taking part in basketball at a playground within the Erie-Ellington neighborhood — an space bounded by Columbia Road, Washington Street and Blue Hill Avenue — when he was gunned down round 7:30 p.m. He could be pronounced lifeless at Boston Medical Center throughout the hour, the Herald beforehand reported.
His mom advised TV stations that day that he had promised to be house by 8 p.m.
Evidence exhibits Gavin drove Mack to the realm of Ellington Street a bit of earlier than 7:30 p.m. and Mack acquired out and began firing at a gaggle that included Ashford, prosecutor Julie Higgins stated. The group fled however Ashford was shot within the again as he fled.
As of Oct. 16, which is the latest knowledge accessible from the Boston Police Department, there had been 22 deadly shootings up to now this yr in Boston, with Ashford being the seventeenth to die. That’s the identical variety of deadly shootings by the identical time final yr, however the 146 complete taking pictures victims throughout town was 20 fewer than the yr earlier than.
Ashford’s father was stabbed to demise 14 years in the past when buddies say that he was making an attempt to cease a combat.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”