Authorities have issued a homicide warrant towards a suspect who they earlier solely hinted at being the perpetrator of a “suspicious” stabbing dying of a 79-year-old Malden man.
Malden Police on Feb. 22 at round 2 p.m. have been dispatched to an residence constructing on Kennedy Drive for a wierd odor coming from a second-floor residence, in accordance with the Middlesex DA’s workplace. In that residence, they discovered resident Ronald Gilbert, 79, useless on the ground.
During this investigation, investigators say that Gilbert’s automobile was stolen, however that they have been capable of finding it and issued a warrant for larceny towards Dion Smith, 33 of Boston. On Wednesday, they upgraded that warrant to a cost of homicide.
“The investigation has also revealed that Smith was not a resident of the building and the two did not appear to be known to each other,” in accordance with the Wednesday assertion.
The Middlesex DA’s workplace famous of their earlier March 2 assertion that it appeared like Gilbert had been useless “for some time” and early data from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner have been making them deal with the case as a “suspicious death.”
In a Wednesday assertion, they disclosed that Gilbert suffered from what seemed to be greater than 30 stab wounds to his physique, and that he had almost certainly been killed in late December of final 12 months.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”
