18, 19-year-old plead responsible in 2024 Dorchester killing

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“I prolong my deepest sympathies to the household and associates of Leudis Mejia Sanchez, whose final act in life was a valiant effort to assist his son,” Hayden mentioned.”

Two younger males pleaded responsible to manslaughter on Tuesday for his or her half in a 2024 taking pictures of a Dorchester father and son that left the daddy lifeless, prosecutors mentioned.

Manuel Guerrero, 19, and Luis Perez, 18, pleaded responsible to manslaughter, armed assault to homicide, and residential invasion expenses one week earlier than their scheduled jury trial, the workplace of Suffolk County District Lawyer Kevin Hayden mentioned in a press launch.

Each had been sentenced to 18 to 22 years in state jail, adopted by two years of probation, Hayden’s workplace mentioned.

On August 12, 2024, the pair had been seen leaving their rented Kia Forte close to Trent and Clarkson streets. Surveillance cameras confirmed Perez and Guerrero strolling to the third ground of 5 Trent St., the DA mentioned.

The 2 knocked on an condo door, and Leudis Concepcion, 20, answered. As quickly as Concepcion noticed the defendant’s weapons, he slammed the door shut, prosecutors mentioned.

One of many defendants fired two photographs by means of the door, hitting Concepcion within the arm, the DA mentioned.

Concepcion’s father, Leudis Mejia Sanchez, 49, heard the gunshots from outdoors and ran upstairs to his son. Guerrero and Perez fled again down the steps and shot Sanchez within the chest, killing him, prosecutors mentioned.

“Each males had been charged with taking pictures the daddy and son although it’s unclear who really fired the photographs,” Hayden’s workplace mentioned.

Surveillance cameras captured the faces of the defendant’s after they fled the condo complicated. A number of days later, the Kia was present in a Zipcar parking house, the DA mentioned. GPS knowledge from the rental automotive and from a GPS monitoring bracelet Perez was sporting for an unrelated armed theft confirmed the boys’s location, Hayden’s workplace mentioned.

Mejia Sanchez was remembered in courtroom by household as a “group chief, an individual who touched numerous lives with selflessness, at all times prioritizing others,” prosecutors mentioned.

“I prolong my deepest sympathies to the household and associates of Leudis Mejia Sanchez, whose final act in life was a valiant effort to assist his son,” Hayden mentioned.

Attorneys for each Guerrero and Perez didn’t reply to a request for remark Wednesday night time.