stunning. jesus. the people were dead, naked in the street. a baby killed.
massacre: ‘We’re gonna get them’
Boston Herald
September 28, 2010
A tough-talking but visibly shaken Mayor Thomas M. Menino vowed to catch the killers responsible for a Mattapan massacre early this morning that left a toddler, his mom and two others dead, and a fifth man expected to succumb to his injuries.
“We’re gonna get them,” a somber Menino told a press conference moments ago. “We’re gonna lock up ’em up and throw the key away.”
The mass murder unfolded at about 1 a.m., said Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis, when the department’s shot spotter detected gunshots at 40 Woolson St. Two men and one woman were pronounced dead at the scene, while a toddler was rushed to the hospital and died shortly thereafter, Davis said. A fifth victim will not survive, he said.
Authorities are urging the community to step forward with any information they have about the horrific crime.
“We’re imploring the public to please join us and share what they know,” said Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley.
The mayor, who called Gov. Deval Patrick this morning about the crime, said the victims knew their killers.
“We’ll continue to take action on the impact players and their families,” he said. “These are deep-rooted issues that go beyond our young people. We must tackle entire families, mental health issues, anger and no regard for life - their own or others.”
Davis confirmed that all the victims were found outside the home and that one victim was naked. Sources told the Herald that others were only partially clothed.
The mom was found cradling her 2- or 3-year-old son in her arms, sources said.
“This feels like from what is currently known a summary execution,” said the Rev. Eugene Rivers, at the crime scene. “This is a horrific tragedy that is an opportunity for the city to come together about how we deal with the culture of violence.”
Neighbor Ralph Myrthil said he heard six shots early this morning, ran outside and saw two naked men lying on the sidewalk.
“They were simply sleeping,” he said. “They (caught) them, they grabbed them and they shoot them. It was a great shock in the area.”
Police spokeswoman Elaine Driscoll said homicide investigators are searching for a silver or gray Ford Explorer that may somehow be connected to the shooting. She said police are now trying to chase down that vehicle after units rushing to the scene and investigators put out the call for the car.
“There ain’t no protection here,” said Samuel T. Moran, 59, who lives on Wildwood Street. “I think Mayor Menino and Deval Patrick need to pay attention more closely.”
Moran said he was asleep in a chair at his home when he was awoken by four gunshots, but he assumed it was just the sound of firecrackers. When he heard another shot, he said he looked outside.
“I saw a shadow running down the street and a gray vehicle going down Wildwood Street toward Wilson,” he said.
At the crime scene this morning, the district attorney told reporters this is an “unprecedented” crime.
“You don’t see this in Boston or really throughout the country for that matter,” he said. “A small child was not doing anything. As a parent, as a citizen of the city, it breaks your heart. It’s very troubling to see what man can do to man.”
Police are handing out leaflets across the neighborhood today, asking for the community’s help.
A group of mourners were seen sobbing and screaming a few hundred yards from the crime scene and a local minister arrived to comfort them. After nearly an hour of grief, police arrived to give the family and friends an escort away from the media.
School buses were pulling by the scene this morning near Morton Street and kids could be seen staring out the windows. Police have put down green evidence cones where bullet casings were found.
Boston Globe
Boston police investigators are actively pursuing a lead that the quadruple slayings on a Mattapan side street early today – including the death of a toddler – occurred during a drug-related encounter, two law enforcement officials said this afternoon.
Detectives are pursuing this motive after one of the victims -- before he fell unconscious -- said he had been trying to buy drugs shortly before the shooting rampage, one of the officials said.
Three male victims were found naked in the street, the officials said. They were spread many feet apart from one another, making it appear as if they were trying to flee the scene as they were shot, one of the officials said. The victims were not lined up and shot execution-style, the official said.
Two of the three men were declared dead at the scene; the third remains in critical condition at a local hospital with life-threatening injuries. A woman was also declared dead at the scene. The toddler, who the official said was a boy, was rushed to a hospital before dying. Another official said the woman was cradling the boy when she was shot in the head.
it's a cool tool for LE.
click: SHOT SPOTTER
The system is used to detect, locate, alert and track gunfire and other explosive events in near real-time. Each event is logged into a historical database for strategic and tactical crime analysis that reveals crime trends, patterns, and hot spots within a coverage area. ShotSpotter GLS data has also been used to corroborate and refute eye witness testimony, establish a timeline of events, and aid in crime scene reconstruction.
so you don't live in a drug ghetto?
this was shocking even for a major city.
My little colonial town's version of the ghetto is one street where you can see a Caddy sitting in front of a hovel with an actual living room sofa sitting in the side yard & clothes thrown onto tree branches to dry. They are harmless, lazy assed fools, we don't have big crime just your basic penny ante stuff. {knock wood}
between the vicious and premeditated butchery of a pizza delivery man and this, something has changed in Boston.
and it's all about fucking drugs.
if people had nothing to do with drugs and the drug culture, they wouldn't be dragged out of their beds, stripped naked and shot in the streets.
i'm waiting to see how long before someone 'snitches'.
Boston’s grisliest mass murder in nearly two decades - made all the more horrific by the senseless execution of a baby in his young mother’s final embrace - sent horror rippling yesterday throughout the city, from the most powerful seats of government to the child’s devastated family.
“You don’t see this in Boston or really throughout the country for that matter,” said District Attorney Daniel Conley after the early morning massacre in Mattapan that left four bodies - some naked - and one man clinging to life last night. “A small child was not doing anything. As a parent, as a citizen of the city, it breaks your heart. It’s very troubling to see what man can do to man.”
Investigators yesterday were probing whether the savage crime was drug-related.
The slain woman, who died cradling her fatally wounded baby boy, was Eyanna Louise Flonory, 21, of Dorchester, a criminal law student at Bunker Hill Community College, according to her mother, Delorise Flonory, 67, of Brockton. (yeah, but she never returned to classes last spring.)
Her murdered grandson, 2-year-old Armani Smith, “was everything” to Eyanna, she said.
The mother of a Boston man murdered in one of the city’s worst massacres on record said she believes her son was trying to pull his life together when he was cut down in Mattapan. yep. they always say that. i AM sorry for you mother.
Levaughn Washum-Garrison, 22, and three others were killed at the intersection of Woolson and Wildwood streets early Tuesday morning. One victim remains on life support.
right now...Boston police are executing a search warrant at the home of Simba Martin, who family and sources say was one of the five victims of yesterday’s horrific massacre in Mattapan.
Martin, 21, lived at 23 Sutton St. about half a city block from where the bodies were found on Woolson Street - some of them naked, according to police and witnesses.
simba? i'm sure he was an upstanding citizen.
edit a couple days later...it's all about drug thugs and nobody gives a shit. one arrest has been made.
the baby was the only innocent victim. they were all drug thugs. the baby probably never had a chance in life being around that shit. DCF should have kept the kid and he'd still be alive. but living with other drug thug relatives. sigh.
i guess the baby-daddy was a pharaoh. hahaha
Just nine days before 2-year-old Amanihoteph Smith and his young mother were cold-bloodedly gunned down in the street, EMTs found the baby boy toddling unattended at 9:30 a.m. in Mattapan swathed only in a diaper, according to Boston police and the state Department of Children and Families.
Entrusted by his mother Eyanna Louise Flonory, 21, to the care of his father, Amenhotep Smith, 23, authorities found the door to Smith’s Morton Street home wide open, the residence reeking of burning pot and empty beer bottles littering the living room and kitchen, a police report on the Sept. 19 incident states.
Smith, who served a year in jail for bringing a semiautomatic handgun loaded with hollow-point bullets into Brighton High School in 2004 one day after he was suspended for a separate infraction, wasn’t even home and later told investigators he thought his family knew to look after his son.
Smith could not be reached for comment.
An uncle and a female friend questioned by EMTs said they’d been asleep when little Amani wandered off.
Flonory, one of the four victims who lost their lives in Tuesday’s mass murder on Woolson Street, told police “she thought her son was safe in the care of his father and was unaware of the conditions of the father’s residence regarding the marijuana and alcohol,” police reported. WHY WAS SHE UNAWARE?? THAT'S BULLSHIT.
Flonory, Smith and their son were reunited at Carney Hospital, where authorities brought the tot to be evaluated.
The Department of Children and Families yesterday acknowledged receiving a report about the incident, but would not say whether it investigated further.
A Dorchester man was arrested last night on a weapons charge in connection with the Mattapan massacre that left a toddler dead in his mother’s arms - the first big break in a case that has stunned the city.
Kimani Washington, 34, of Dorchester was arrested in Manchester, N.H., by members of the Boston Police Department’s Fugitive Apprehension Team, said Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley’s Office.
"Entrusted by his mother Eyanna Louise Flonory, 21, to the care of his drug thug convict father, Amenhotep Smith..."
Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed part a 3,400-year-old statue of the pharaoh Amenhotep III, believed to be the grandfather of the young King Tutankhamun.
well fuck, this one had an actual job!
how the hell does a telemarketer sell anything talking ghetto smack?
A telemarketer has been fingered by witnesses as one of three men connected to the Sept 28 executions of a young woman, her 2-year-old son and two other men, as well as the life-threatening wounding of a third man, according to a prosecutor and a police report released today.
Edward “Eddie” Washington, 31, of Dorchester was ordered held without bail this morning after pleading not guilty to four counts of murder, armed assault with intent to murder, home invasion, armed robbery and unlawful weapons charges at Dorchester District Court.
Why do they all have the same nose? It's the same way all Asians have the same eyes. I seriously would not be able to pick any of these people out of a lineup. They all look alike.
I must be getting seriously fucked up because the only thing I could think of after reading this story is "God what a shitty day for the ME" and "Cool! A Shot Spotter!". The victims were thuggish wastes of space and the toddler would have grown up to be just like them. Yawn. The world lightened up just a little because of this crime.
By Peter Gelzinis | Friday, February 17, 2012 bostonherald
They thought they’d braced themselves for a moment that took almost two years to arrive. But nothing could have prepared them for what they heard yesterday in a Suffolk County courtroom.
Chief homicide prosecutor Edmond Zabin opened the Mattapan Massacre trial with a harrowing description of a fusillade of bullets “raking” the bodies of Eyanna Flonory and her 2-year-old son, Amanihoteph Smith, “breaking his bones and shearing his blood vessels.”
It proved too much for Flonory’s family. Amid gasps and tears, they bolted from their front row seats in the packed courtroom and ran into the corridor.
Indeed, Zabin’s clinical account of the slaughter at the intersection of Woolson and Wildwood streets was more horrific than anyone could imagine. It even forced John Cunha, the lawyer defending Edward Washington, to jump out of his chair to yell, “Objection!”
Zabin spoke of a toddler who “knew nothing about drugs and the code of the streets,” a child snuffed out on the very cusp of his life by a “madman with a gun” who, in the midst of a murderous frenzy, did not neglect to shoot the little boy’s mother in the back of the head.
The most excruciating irony of this case is that little Amanihoteph Smith found himself inside what John Amabile, the lawyer representing alleged henchman Dwayne Moore, called “a drug house frequented by dope dealers and stickup guys.”
That was the condo at 23 Sutton St., where Eyanna Flonory’s doomed boyfriend, Simba Martin, allegedly built a flourishing drug operation.
In the days and weeks ahead, as we come to know more about all the people who found themselves at Martin’s condo, we may well be left to confront the awful question: What was an innocent 2-year old boy doing “in a drug house frequented by dope dealers and stickup guys?”
Eyanna Flonory’s loved ones could not bear to hear the ghastly details of her death. But as this trial moves forward, there will be other details and other questions that emerge. And, over time, they may prove even more painful.
At the heart of this tragedy is a young victim who had no business being anywhere near a drug emporium, where alleged assassins had come looking for dope and cold cash.
Ed Zabin was right. Amanihoteph Smith was an innocent who found himself in a hell where “he knew nothing about drugs and the code of the street.”
But there he was. He died along with his mother and her boyfriend. They were all marched out to the intersection of Woolson and Wildwood, their bodies “raked” with bullets over cash and drugs.
That obscenity is the true nightmare of the Mattapan Massacre.
Emotions boil over in Suffolk Superior Court yesterday.
judge just sent jury back to keep trying.
fucking shame Mass. doesn't have death penalty.
boston herald
The jury in the Mattapan Massacre trial announced today they have reached verdicts on 10 counts but are deadlocked on nine others because a lone juror is holding out.
The jury announced this afternoon they have voted 11-1 on those remaining nine charges. The jury foreman handed a note over to Suffolk Superior Court Judge Christine McEvoy on yellow paper that read, in part: “At this point we don’t see a path to meaningful dialogue.”
The judge has sealed the 10 indictments on which there were verdicts and released the jury of four men and eight women for the day. The jury was ordered back in the morning to await further instructions from the judge and to try again to reach a verdict.
Dwayne Moore and Edward Washington are charged in the September 2010 execution of four people during a drug robbery. Killed that night were Simba Martin, Eyanna Flonory, her 2-year-old boy Amani Smith and Levaughn Washum-Garrison who, along with sole survivor Marcus Hurd, were marched at gunpoint out of a condo at 23 Sutton St., around the corner to Woolson Street, where they were cut down by a burst of gunfire.
Hurd, who testified at the trial, was left paralyzed.
The month-long case included testimony by more than 50 witnesses and the admission of 225 exhibits. The case was built on the testimony of star prosecution witness Kimani Washington, who admitted taking part in the robbery but bolted before all the shooting began. Defense attorneys called Kimani Washington a liar.
Defendants Dwayne Moore, left, and Edward Washington
didn't the thugs clean up nicely?
In a stunning decision, the jury in the Mattapan massacre trial ruled today Edward Washington is not guilty of four counts of first-degree murder and all other counts against him in connection with the grisly quadruple slayings.
There was chaos in the court as the verdicts were read and victims’ loved ones shouted out, with some being dragged out of court by court officers.
The co-defendant in the case, Dwayne Moore, was found not guilty of trafficking cocaine, but the jury could not reach a verdict on the nine other counts against him — including murder — prompting the judge to declare a mistrial.
Washington, 32, briefly looked toward his mother before the official reading by the clerk that counts will be discharged against him. Now he is is a free man.
Relatives of the four killed that day on Sept. 28, 2010, have poured out of the court screaming and collapsing. One woman had to be carried out of the court.
i am in shock similar to when casey verdict came down.
i have to wonder if these jurors were afraid of retaliation from the drug thugs if they had voted guilty. it was obvious they are guilty!!
(03-22-2012, 03:07 PM)Lady Cop Wrote: i am in shock similar to when casey verdict came down.
i have to wonder if these jurors were afraid of retaliation from the drug thugs if they had voted guilty. it was obvious they are guilty!!
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