An unlawful immigrant from Roslindale suspected in two metropolis stabbings and needed for a homicide in Philadelphia earlier this 12 months is being held with out bail and now faces deportation.
Wagner Tejeda-Pena, 24, was arraigned Friday afternoon in municipal courtroom in West Roxbury on two counts of assault and battery with a harmful weapon, a knife, linked to 2 stabbings in Roslindale in February. A dangerousness listening to is scheduled for Tuesday.
He’s additionally the suspect within the June 21 Philadelphia homicide of Loi Nguyen, 76, whose physique was present in an alleyway off L Street with a gunshot wound to the pinnacle, in keeping with the Philadelphia Police Department. Nguyen was pronounced lifeless at 5:44 a.m. by medics on the scene.
Just quarter-hour earlier than, in keeping with the PPD, Tejeda-Pena is accused of attempting to shoot two others on E. Luzerne Street however the gun malfunctioned. The targets fought again however have been unable to disarm the suspect and he ran away.
After a multi-state search, Tajeda-Pena was situated and arrested shortly earlier than 11:30 p.m. Thursday in Lawrence.
Tejeda-Pena — who additionally goes by the primary identify Wagner, in keeping with the BPD, and the identify “Elia,” in keeping with charging paperwork — is within the nation illegally and is on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer, in keeping with an ICE supply.
In Boston, Tajeda-Pena allegedly approached a co-worker at about 10:20 a.m. Feb. 13 outdoors a sequence pizza store on Washington Street and instructed him that he thinks the co-worker is his organic father, in keeping with a police report, and the 2 argued over this assertion.
Tajeda-Pena then allegedly pulled out a folding knife and tried to stab the person twice within the chest however missed and ended up stabbing the person in the precise thigh, leaving a 1-inch laceration, the report states.
About three hours later, one other man was stabbed and Tajeda-Pena was recognized because the suspect, in keeping with the police report.
In this case, the person was making lunch within the kitchen of his aunt’s condo, the place he had been staying for some months, when a person — who the sufferer acknowledged he didn’t know — approached him from behind and mentioned, “So this is where you live?” after which stabbed him within the face with a black folding knife, the report alleges.
The sufferer was then in a position to push the aggressor into the lounge and get a ways earlier than the intruder lunged at him and sliced his inside left bicep, the report states. The sufferer bumped into the bed room of a sleeping cousin and tried to close the door however Tajeda-Pena allegedly prevented him from doing so.
A short time later, the sufferer was in a position to run again to the kitchen and arm himself with a knife, however the suspect was already gone, in keeping with the report.
Responding police famous within the report that they discovered blood within the snow outdoors and on the resident’s entrance porch and extra splattered alongside the stair to the higher ground after which contained in the kitchen and the bed room.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”