Edward Washington, 31, of Boston, Massachusetts, was arrested and is to be charged in connection to the Mattapan murders that claimed the lives of four people during the September drug robbery in Mattapan.
Boston Police reported that Washington is to be charged with four counts of Murder, as well as Armed Assault with Intent to Murder, Home Invasion, Armed Robbery, and Unlawful Possession of a Firearm. He is scheduled to be arraigned this morning in the Dorchester Division of the Boston Municipal Court.
As previously reported in the Boston Criminal Lawyers Blog, the Boston Police and Suffolk County prosecutors allege that Edward Washington, Dwayne Moore and Kimani Washington conspired to rob Simba Martin, who was known to them as dealing drugs from his Mattapan home on Sutton Avenue. The men, according to the Boston Police and prosecutors, knew that Martin ran a drug business from his home and knew of his stash of drugs and money.
On September 28, 2010, the men tried to get Martin to come out of his home, but another man, Marcus Hurd, arrived to purchase drugs of his own. At that point, the men forced both Martin and Hurd inside the home at gunpoint and began robbing the home.
After cash, drugs and other items were taken, Martin and Hurd, along with Levaughn Washum-Garrison, Eyanna Flonory and her 2 year old child, Amani Smith, were forcefully taken from the home and directed to nearby Woolson Street where they were shot, execution style, multiple times. Their bodies were found, naked, the next morning by a passer-by. Only Marcus Hurd survived the gunshot wounds, but he remains in critical condition at a Boston Hospital.
The day after the murders, Kimani Washington was stopped by Boston Police Officers driving the car they believe was linked to Marcus Hurd. Washington was arrested for Unlawful Possession of a Firearm and Unlawful Possession of Ammunition. Suffolk County prosecutor have revealed that one of the guns allegedly used in the Mattapan murders was seized during a search of Washington’s mother-in-law’s apartment. He has not, as of this date, been charged with Murder.
Dwayne Moore was also previously arrested and has already been arraigned in the Dorchester Division of the Boston Municipal Court. He has been charged with four counts of First Degree Murder.
At Moore’s arraignment, Suffolk County prosecutors revealed that Moore knew of Martin’s illegal drug business, including the stash of drugs and money at his home, because he had lived with Martin for a short time after being released from state prison in 2010 after serving time for a Manslaughter conviction.
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