LOWELL — Authorities introduced the arrest of a 22-year-old Lowell man who they are saying stabbed his 64-year-old grand-aunt to dying inside her dwelling on Loring Street the night time of July 31.
Rashawn Settles was arrested for the brutal homicide on Saturday, with out incident, at Lowell General Hospital’s Saints Campus, the place he had been held civilly since Aug. 1, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan and interim Lowell Police Superintendent Barry Golner mentioned within the press launch.
Settles is scheduled to be arraigned in Lowell District Court on Monday on prices of homicide and unarmed housebreaking.
Authorities mentioned that shortly earlier than 11:20 p.m. on July 31, police acquired a 911 name reporting an unresponsive feminine who had been discovered inside a Loring Street dwelling. Police arrived on scene to seek out the sufferer — later recognized as Linda Gilbert — affected by obvious trauma.
Gilbert was transported to Lowell General Hospital the place she was pronounced lifeless. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner dominated that her explanation for dying was a number of stab wounds.
According to authorities, investigators situated surveillance video of Settles, the sufferer’s grandnephew, strolling to and from the house across the time of the homicide. Authorities additionally reported that investigators situated clothes allegedly worn by Settles in the course of the homicide. Those garments had been examined on the State Police Crime Laboratory and allegedly discovered to have the sufferer’s DNA on them.
In addition to the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office and Lowell Police, the case was investigated by State Police detectives assigned to the District Attorney’s Office. The prosecutors assigned to this case are Daniel Harren and Joanna Staley. The Victim Witness Advocate is Susie Marshall.
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