A 42-year-old Boston man who was accused of fatally stabbing his ex-girlfriend, a mom of six daughters, has been sentenced to life in jail.
Christopher Howard on Tuesday pleaded responsible to second-degree homicide within the Could 2022 lethal stabbing of Terkeisha Boykins, 40.
Choose Mary Ames sentenced Howard to life in jail, with parole eligibility after 20 years.
Howard, who shared two daughters with Boykins, was apprehended in Florida every week after allegedly stabbing her to demise inside her condo.
Suffolk prosecutors informed the courtroom that shortly earlier than 9:40 p.m. on Could 10, 2022, Howard was inside a bed room with Boykins in her Mattapan condo.
Upon listening to commotion within the room, witnesses opened the bed room door and noticed Howard on high of Boykins, stabbing her with a knife. Howard fled the condo and the state. He was apprehended greater than 1,000 miles away in Jacksonville on Could 17.
4 of Boykins’ daughters delivered sufferer impression statements in courtroom on Tuesday.
“My mom was one of the most generous people that I had the blessing to call my mother,” her 18-year-old daughter mentioned. “She was the most loving and caring person who would put anybody above herself no matter what, even if that means giving her last. She is the reason I am who I am today, and I miss her every day.”
Suffolk DA Kevin Hayden praised the survivors for his or her statements, and thanked the prosecution workforce and members of the Boston Police Murder Unit for his or her work on the case.
“Terkeisha Boykins’ daughters couldn’t have been more eloquent in expressing memories of their mother, who very clearly loved them and who was very clearly loved in return,” Hayden mentioned in an announcement. “I thank them for their beautiful tributes and I thank everyone who worked so hard to bring the person responsible for Terkeisha’s tragic death to justice.”
