Lacking package deal results in alleged assault

A dispute over a package deal delivered to the improper handle a number of days earlier than Christmas spiraled into an assault, in accordance with the Suffolk County District Legal professional’s Workplace.

Khalil Muhammad, 29, was charged with assault and battery on an individual over 60 and unarmed theft in Boston Municipal Court docket in Dorchester final week after an altercation together with his neighbor.

Prosecutors alleged that Muhammad beat a 77-year-old neighbor after the sufferer approached Muhammad to ask him a few lacking package deal.

When officers responded to a report of an assault in progress at 730 Cummins Freeway on Dec. 22, they spoke to a witness who described the beating and mentioned Muhammad stole the aged neighbor’s telephone.

In addition they spoke to Muhammad who mentioned the person had accused him of stealing one in all his packages.

Police discovered the sufferer “badly overwhelmed together with his eyes swollen shut, a bleeding lower below one eye, and unable to reply questions,” in accordance with the DA. The aged man was transported to the hospital and ultimately in a position to speak to police, telling them that an Amazon package deal had been mistakenly delivered to Muhammad’s condo.

When the sufferer approached Muhammad about it, Muhammad allegedly took the person’s cellphone and began beating him. When the person ran up the steps again to his condo, he informed police Muhammad adopted him and continued the assault.

“We take all assaults significantly, and the info current right here — an aged sufferer struggling appreciable accidents after being subjected to an prolonged assault — are notably egregious. Escalating an incident of a mis-delivered package deal to such violence is insupportable,” Suffolk DA Kevin Hayden mentioned in an announcement.

Based on the DA, Muhammad has a legal historical past in each Massachusetts and New York, together with an energetic East Boston case for assault and battery with a harmful weapon, assault and battery on a police officer, resisting arrest, and possession of a Class B drug.

A choose within the East Boston case revoked Muhammad’s bail and ordered him to be detained for probation violations.

He’s anticipated again in court docket on Jan. 22.

Incident Abstract

BPD responded to 228 incidents within the 24-hour interval ending at 10 a.m. Tuesday, in accordance with the division’s incident log. These included arrests for one theft, eight aggravated assaults, one business housebreaking, two residential burglaries, one larceny from a automobile, 19 miscellaneous larcenies, and three auto thefts.

Arrests

All the below-named defendants are presumed harmless till confirmed responsible.

— Stanley Cruz, 1049 Tremont St., Boston. Unarmed theft.

— Jerry Joseph, 368 Norfolk St., Dorchester. Warrant.

— Jenny Guerrier, 738 Metropolitan Ave., Hyde Park. Possession of a Class A drug.

— Jonathan Burns, 54 Wellington St., Boston. Trespassing.

— Melissa Ackles, 43 Esmond St., Dorchester. Shoplifting by asportation.

— Richard D’alio, 70 Bellingham St., Chelsea. Warrant.