The males accused within the homicide of a 15-year-old boy in Dorchester this summer season appeared in courtroom the place the alleged shooter was ordered held with out bail and the alleged shooter’s driver was held in lieu of $75,000 bail.
Curtis Ashford Jr. had promised his mom that he could be dwelling by 8 p.m. on July 27 when he went to play some basketball on the Erie-Ellington Playground, the Herald reported on the time.
But simply round half-hour earlier than he was to be dwelling, prosecutor Julie Higgins stated in Suffolk Superior Court Wednesday, he was as an alternative struck within the again by one in all 15 bullets shot by Zontre Mack, who made his getaway in a automobile pushed by Dominick Gavin. Ashford had turned 15 solely 12 days earlier than he was declared lifeless later that night at Boston Medical Center, Higgins stated.
Magistrate Stacey Pichardo ordered Mack, 19, of Canton, who’s first-degree homicide and unlawful weapons and ammunition possession, held with out bail. She set bail at $75,000 for Gavin, 25, of Boston, who’s charged with accent after the actual fact of homicide.
The bail quantity was removed from the $250,000 Higgins requested, however nonetheless far in extra of what his lawyer, Amy Codagnone, stated he might afford. Pichard additionally ordered that ought to Gavin be launched, he not have any contact or go close to Ashford’s household, however denied Higgins request for GPS monitoring, citing current Supreme Judicial Court steering on the problem.
Higgins stated that it was shortly earlier than 7:30 p.m. that the 2 males pulled as much as Michigan Avenue, only one block away from and parallel to Ellington Street the place the playground sits on the nook with Erie Street, in Gavins’ black 2011 Hyundai Sonata. Gavins remained within the automobile however Mack acquired out.
“It was a hot July day and he was still wearing a full-length black hoodie and the hoodie was up over his head and he walked a short distance to Ellington Street,” Higgins stated, the place he “then fired 15 rounds at a group of individuals that were standing around a parked white Range Rover.”
Among that group, she stated surveillance footage confirmed, was Ashford. The boy takes off on his bike, then drops it and begins to run, Higgins stated, “then collapses around a park that is near the end of the street.”
Witnesses made out a partial plate, Higgins stated, and it was positioned at its registered tackle on Monsignor Reynolds Way at round 8 p.m. the place, she stated, police discovered the firearm wrapped inside a sweatshirt within the trunk.
Gavin has 22 grownup and two juvenile entries on his document, Higgins stated. Of these, he was convicted in two instances, together with in 2018 for intimidation of a witness and assault with a harmful weapon and in 2017 for firearms prices.
Mack has no prior grownup document, Higgins stated, however has 27 juvenile entries on his document, although most of them had been dismissed. Of be aware are prices of assault and battery with a harmful weapon — a shod foot — towards an individual over 60 in 2019 and a cost of assault and battery on a police officer and resisting arrest in 2020.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”