BOSTON (AP) — A man was ordered held without bail Tuesday following his arraignment on murder and other charges in a shooting in Boston that left four people dead, including a 2-year-old boy and his mother, and a fifth wounded.
In a courtroom packed with friends and relatives of the victims, not guilty pleas were entered for Dwayne Moore, 33, on charges of murder, armed robbery and home invasion.
Moore, who prosecutors said was released from prison earlier this year after serving a 10-15 year sentence for manslaughter, did not appear in the courtroom. Instead, he stood behind a plexiglass partition with the door cracked open so he could hear the charges.
Moore’s court-appointed lawyer said his client “vehemently denies” the allegations.
Killed in the Sept. 28 shootings were 2-year-old Amani Smith; his mother, 21-year-old Eyanna Flonory; her boyfriend, 21-year-old Simba Martin; and 22-year-old Levaughn Washum-Garrison. The fifth victim, 32-year-old Marcus Hurd, was critically wounded.
Assistant Suffolk District Attorney Edmond Zabin said in Dorchester District Court that Moore used to live with Martin and knew that Martin kept drugs and cash at the address.
Moore and Kimani Washington, 34, went to Martin’s apartment in the city’s Mattapan neighborhood with the intention of robbing it, Zabin said.
After Moore went through the apartment and took cash, drugs, a TV and other items, the five victims were “marched up the street … where they were shot multiple times,” Zabin said.
Washington was charged earlier in the investigation with weapons violations, receiving a stolen car, drug trafficking and being a career criminal. He pleaded not guilty and his lawyer has said he “unequivocally denies” hurting anyone.
Moore’s lawyer did not contest the prosecution’s request that his client be held without bail.
The shooting was the single deadliest in Boston since December 2005, when four young men were fatally shot in a makeshift basement recording studio in the Dorchester neighborhood. Two men are serving prison sentences for that shooting.
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- Dwayne Moore, center, stands behind a courtroom door to a hallway during his arraignment Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010, on murder and other charges in the Sept. 28 killings of four people, including a 2-year-old boy and his mother, in Boston’s Mattapan neighborhood. (AP Photo/Mark Garfinkel, Pool)
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