A Lynn man has been discovered responsible of murdering 24-year-old pizza supply driver Mohammedreza “Sina” Zangiband throughout a North Shore crime spree in 2017 that introduced with it a slew of different fees, together with the rape of a North Andover comfort retailer clerk, for which he was additionally convicted.
A Salem Superior Court jury on Friday discovered Brian Brito, 27, of Lynn, responsible of homicide, aggravated rape, aggravated kidnapping, armed theft whereas masked and whereas carrying a firearm, assault and battery by way of a harmful weapon inflicting critical bodily harm, armed assault with intent to homicide, and illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition.
Judge Jeffrey Karp scheduled sentencing for July 12.
“The brutality of these crimes has changed many lives forever but justice was served through a tremendous group effort by our trial team, victim witness staff and investigators with units across the community,” Essex District Attorney Paul Tucker mentioned in an announcement following the decision.
“This was a difficult case for many reasons but this defendant will now face the consequences of his actions.”
The crime spree came about over a number of hours from Lynn to North Andover and Lawrence, the Herald reported on the time.
The crime spree started when Brito gunned Zangiband down on Bowler Street in Lynn at round 6 p.m. on March 27, 2017, because the sufferer was out delivering pizzas for the native Atha’s Pizza enterprise, in keeping with earlier Herald reporting.
“I heard four shots and then screeching wheels,” a 61-year-old neighbor, who requested to stay nameless, informed the Herald. “My son looked out and saw a car with the driver’s side window shot out.”
But Brito was initially charged with what he did round 4 hours later, when he robbed a North Andover comfort retailer and raped the feminine clerk at gunpoint whereas he was in the midst of it. It was one thing he allegedly mentioned whereas raping this lady that first made him a “person of interest” in Zangiband’s homicide.
“Thank you for making this easy,” Brito, then a resident of Manchester, N.H., informed his rape sufferer, in keeping with a North Andover police report. “I had to kill someone today that made it hard. I am going to leave you some money.”
He then allegedly stuffed one in every of his naked-from-the-waist-down sufferer’s footwear with one-dollar payments earlier than he himself made off with roughly $500 from the shop’s cash field and the entire lottery scratch tickets from the counter.
About 20 minutes later, police noticed his grey Audi — which that they had been looking out for because the Bowler Street capturing. They pulled him over, hauled him out and cuffed him.
State Police spokesman David Procopio mentioned that the arresting troopers discovered the black pistol, loaded with a spherical within the chamber, within the killer’s inside jacket pocket in addition to an extra journal and a field of ammunition in his sweatpants pockets.
Zangiband — who was born in Iran and had moved to the U.S. at age 13 and graduated from Lynn Classical High School — had high-flying plans for his future.
He had invested “hundreds of hours” in aviation college in Central Florida and dreamed of at some point being a industrial pilot, family and friends informed reporters. But he additionally preferred quick automobiles, and rented dozens of muscle automobiles a yr — logging a 60-hour workweek to fund his pastime.
“We were going to rent him a Lamborghini for his birthday,” Zangiband’s brother-in-law, who recognized himself to Herald reporters then as merely “Ryan,” mentioned, noting the sufferer would have turned 25 the following week.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”