Not less than one depressing Mass and Cass story got here to a detailed Wednesday when a Boston man was sentenced to fifteen years in jail for the 2021 stabbing dying of 33-year-old Richard Ghiozzi.
David Robinson, 52, pleaded responsible to voluntary manslaughter in Suffolk Superior Court docket. Decide Mary Ames sentenced him to fifteen years in state jail.
“I lost my beautiful first-born son on January 04, 2021, the day that turned our lives upside down forever,” the sufferer’s mom, Janet Ghiozzi, wrote in a sufferer impression assertion learn in courtroom by prosecutor David Bradley. She wrote that she and the household selected to not be current on the sentencing as a result of they may not bear to revisit the ache of the tragedy.
“David Robinson, you did not just take Richie’s life that day, you took everything from us. Our family, sense of security, laughs and potential,” the assertion continued. “It’s so hard to find words impactful enough to describe the devastation you have caused on my entire family.”
Prosecutors say that on Jan. 4, 2021, Robinson and one other man, Robert Jamison, attacked Ghiozzi with knives on the fireplace division station off Southampton Avenue, close to the epicenter of what was as soon as a tent metropolis of habit and violence close to the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard. It didn’t take lengthy after the tents have been dismantled there for the difficulty to rear again and evolve.
Prosecutors allege that after Robinson stabbed Ghiozzi in what would develop into deadly wounds, Jamison then stomped on Ghiozzi’s head. Jamison’s case is ongoing with the subsequent listening to date scheduled for Nov. 5.
“The horrific, unbearable pain and terror my son Richie must have felt the day you took his life is a thought that never leaves me and will haunt me forever,” Janet Ghiozzi’s assertion continued.
“There is no amount of time served that could ever be enough for taking away my son’s life and breaking my family. No parent or sibling should ever have to live the nightmare we have been living since Richie was murdered. My family and our community would be safer in my opinion if David Robinson remains off the streets,” Janet Ghiozzi wrote.
Suffolk District Lawyer Kevin Hayden known as Janet Ghiozzi’s assertion “heartbreaking” and added, “While the cases against defendants may conclude, the loss felt by survivors is eternal.”
