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Marcus Chavis of Dorchester, accused of killing wife, another woman and stabbing dog, held without bail
Updated May 03, 2021;
A 35-year-old man who is accused of killing his wife and another woman and stabbing a dog in a Dorchester apartment over the weekend was ordered held without bail on Monday, according to Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins’ office.
Marcus Chavis was arraigned in the Dorchester Division of the Boston Municipal Court on Monday on two counts of murder and one count of animal cruelty in connection with the killing of 28-year-old Fatima Yasin and 42-year-old Jahaira DeAlto, authorities said.
Authorities say Chavis called 911 shortly before 12:30 p.m. on Sunday to report that he had stabbed his wife. Officers arrived at a Taft Street building, where Chavis, Yasin, DeAlto and two children lived, police said.
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Zerola, who turned himself in to police on Jan. 15, already faced charges in the same court that s now holding him without bail for allegedly raping another woman in 2016. He s faced other rape allegations as well but has never been convicted.
His lawyer, Joseph Krowski Jr., has previously said that the allegations presented by Suffolk County prosecutors in court in Zerola s latest case are absurd and paper thin.
Zerola is a criminal defense attorney who has served as a prosecutor in Essex and Suffolk counties and was once listed by People Magazine as a top bachelor.
A former transit police officer has been indicted on multiple charges for allegedly abusing a 63-year-old Black man and filing a misleading report about the incident, Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins office announced Monday.
Officer Nicholas Morrissey, 41, was charged with assault and battery, assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon (the pavement), violating the victim’s civil rights and filing a false report.
The incident occurred April 28, 2020, when transit police were called to Forest Hills Station in Jamaica Plain for a report of an intoxicated homeless man who refused to leave a bus, according to the DA s office. Officer Nicholas Morrissey, who is white, allegedly dragged the man from the bus and forcibly held him face-down with a knee on his back for 20 seconds, the office said. Morrissey also allegedly pushed the man s head into the pavement and then later dragged him out of the bus lane.