A 21-year-old Canton man was convicted of homicide for the deadly taking pictures in Dorchester of 15-year-old Curtis Ashford Jr. in the summertime of 2022.
“Losing someone so young to violence is a blow to the entire city. Every person who cares about the health of our neighborhoods and the safety of our young people — and that should be all of us — should be shocked, saddened and motivated to make things better,” Suffolk District Lawyer Kevin Hayden stated. “But nowhere is Curtis’s loss felt more profoundly than by his family and friends, and they will always have our sympathy and our support.”
A Suffolk Superior Court docket jury on Monday convicted Zontre Mack of the first-degree homicide of Ashford. Choose Mary Ames scheduled sentencing for Oct. 23 at 9:30 a.m.
A co-conspirator, Dominick Gavin, 27, of Boston, pleaded responsible in August to being an adjunct after the actual fact, for which he was sentenced to a few to 4 years in jail.
Ashford, who had promised his mom he could be dwelling by 8 p.m., was enjoying basketball at a playground within the Erie-Ellington neighborhood when he was gunned down round 7:30 p.m. on July 27, 2022. He could be pronounced useless at Boston Medical Middle inside the hour.
Prosecutors say Mack drove to the realm of Ellington Road that night.
“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,” prosecutor Julie Higgins stated at Mack’s arraignment that November, the place he “then fired 15 rounds at a group of individuals that were standing around a parked white Range Rover.”
Ashford dropped his bike and tried to flee the realm on foot with the others however was shot within the again, Higgins stated.
Mack was 19 on the time and had no prior grownup prison file. He did, nevertheless, have a juvenile file that included 27 entries, based on earlier Herald reporting. Though a lot of the circumstances had been dismissed, notable entries included expenses of assault and battery with a harmful weapon — a shod foot — in opposition to an individual over 60 in 2019 and a cost of assault and battery on a police officer and resisting arrest in 2020.
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