04-24-2012, 07:58 AM
my son's girlfriend is from Southie and knew this nice lady.
how sad.
boston herald
Moments after Timothy Kostka slashed the throat of a beloved South Boston grandmother, he cashed in her winning lottery ticket at the corner store, then used the ill-gotten gains to buy heroin in Roxbury, prosecutors said in court yesterday as they detailed the chilling murder that has Southie’s City Point community reeling.
“It only took a few minutes,” Suffolk Assistant District Attorney Ursula Knight told South Boston District Court Judge Michael Boldan during yesterday’s emotional arraignment. “At 10:03 a.m., he was at Jimmy’s Korner, cashing in the lottery ticket, and at 10:06 a.m., he started making calls for heroin.”
Coyne, who had known Kostka, described her attacker to her son, said Knight. She later died at Boston Medical Center at 10:34 a.m., according to a police report.
Knight said Kostka, 26, of South Boston went to Coyne’s East 7th Street home to steal some expensive fishing equipment that belonged to Coyne’s son, Richard. “Timothy Kostka called a contact asking where to send high-end fishing equipment,” Knight said.
It was just before 10 a.m. on Marathon Monday, Knight said, and Richard Coyne, who lives on the third floor of the family’s triple decker, was supposed to be running that race. Kostka wound up in Barbara Coyne’s first-floor apartment.
“His fingerprints were found on two jewelry boxes, a cash box and lottery tickets,” Knight said.
Defense attorney William E. Gens said because Kostka knew the family, the fingerprints “could have been there from 10 years ago.”
As Knight recounted the day, Barbara Coyne’s adult children clutched each other and sobbed. They were among 25 Coyne family supporters sitting just a few feet away from eight Kostka family members.
Kostka, who pleaded not guilty to the murder and home invasion charges, is being held without bail.
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how sad.
boston herald
Moments after Timothy Kostka slashed the throat of a beloved South Boston grandmother, he cashed in her winning lottery ticket at the corner store, then used the ill-gotten gains to buy heroin in Roxbury, prosecutors said in court yesterday as they detailed the chilling murder that has Southie’s City Point community reeling.
“It only took a few minutes,” Suffolk Assistant District Attorney Ursula Knight told South Boston District Court Judge Michael Boldan during yesterday’s emotional arraignment. “At 10:03 a.m., he was at Jimmy’s Korner, cashing in the lottery ticket, and at 10:06 a.m., he started making calls for heroin.”
Coyne, who had known Kostka, described her attacker to her son, said Knight. She later died at Boston Medical Center at 10:34 a.m., according to a police report.
Knight said Kostka, 26, of South Boston went to Coyne’s East 7th Street home to steal some expensive fishing equipment that belonged to Coyne’s son, Richard. “Timothy Kostka called a contact asking where to send high-end fishing equipment,” Knight said.
It was just before 10 a.m. on Marathon Monday, Knight said, and Richard Coyne, who lives on the third floor of the family’s triple decker, was supposed to be running that race. Kostka wound up in Barbara Coyne’s first-floor apartment.
“His fingerprints were found on two jewelry boxes, a cash box and lottery tickets,” Knight said.
Defense attorney William E. Gens said because Kostka knew the family, the fingerprints “could have been there from 10 years ago.”
As Knight recounted the day, Barbara Coyne’s adult children clutched each other and sobbed. They were among 25 Coyne family supporters sitting just a few feet away from eight Kostka family members.
Kostka, who pleaded not guilty to the murder and home invasion charges, is being held without bail.