A Roxbury teen modified her plea to responsible in Suffolk Superior Courtroom on Wednesday, and can serve as much as 14 years for fatally stabbing one girl and wounding one other juvenile in a combat over a leaked intercourse tape.
“Everything about this case is tragic: The loss of one young woman, the serious injury of another and the conviction and incarceration of a third,” stated Suffolk DA Kevin Hayden. “The combined elements of youth, impulsiveness and social media weaponization forged an incident that ended one life and forever altered many others.”
Wilmary Mejia Matos, 18, pleaded responsible to the manslaughter of 21-year-old girl Brianna Brown and assault and battery with a harmful weapon inflicting severe bodily harm for the non-fatal stabbing of a 17-year-old two years in the past.
Matos, tried as an grownup because of the severe nature of the fees regardless of her age, initially pleaded not responsible to homicide throughout her arraignment days after the lethal altercation.
Matos was sentenced to 10 to 14 years in jail, adopted by three years on probation.
On Feb. 11, 2023, 16-year-old Matos realized her boyfriend on the time “videotaped them having sex and sent the video to the 17-year-old victim,” the DA’s workplace stated. The defendant stated she believed the teenager had posted the video on-line and confronted the sufferer over social media, the place they “exchanged threats.”
The scenario escalated, and the pair agreed to satisfy at Woodside Avenue in Jamaica Plain to combat, the DA’s workplace stated.
Matos reportedly got here with two male mates – sending “threatening voice texts” and sharing her location – whereas the 17-year-old confirmed up together with her brother and his girlfriend, Brown. One of many defendant’s mates tried to dissuade her.
The following combat was partially captured on video, the DA’s workplace stated. Through the altercation, Brown was stabbed 16 instances. The juvenile sufferer was stabbed 4 instances.
Each victims made it to a neighborhood police station, in response to police data, and brought to a hospital. Brown was pronounced useless on the hospital from wounds to her throat and chest. The teenager was handled for severe accidents however recovered.
Matos was additionally taken to a hospital and handled for an abrasion to her brow and cuts on each her palms and wrists, which prosecutors stated had been in keeping with wielding her knife.
The defendant was discovered after the incident at a building web site together with her boyfriend, and police positioned the knife believed for use close by.
Relations of each victims had been current in court docket on Wednesday and gave emotional sufferer impression statements through the listening to.
One in all Brown’s brothers stated his sister’s life was “that of a dandelion, beautiful and fleeting. Here one day, gone the next.”
“If I learned one thing from my sister, it’s how to forgive,” Brown’s brother addressed to Matos in court docket Wednesday. “I forgive you.”
Hayden stated, “It’s the saddest of situations for all involved, and a sad situation for the city itself.”
