Edward Washington and Dwayne Moore are each facing four counts of first-degree murder in the alleged execution of two men in addition to Amanihotep and his mother, Eyanna Flonory, during a robbery. The two men were Simba Martin, a 21-year-old drug dealer, who prosecutors say was the target of the plan by the alleged killers to steal cash and drugs from him, and Levaughn Washum-Garrison, 22, who was sleeping on Martin’s couch that night.
The horrific crime shook the city and a neighborhood that has all too frequently been hit by deadly violence.
When officer Bernard Hicks first arrived on the scene, he testified, he was only carrying his pistol. But when he found the body of a naked man, face down on Wildwood Street, he went back to his cruiser and got his rifle. As he proceeded deeper into the crime scene, he said, he saw a cluster of officers tending to more victims who had fallen on Woolson Street.
Hicks said he saw Holder tending to the lifeless mother, dressed in pajamas, and her small son.
The boy had what appeared to be burn marks on his arms.
“Are you OK?’’ Hicks asked Holder.
But before he got the answer, Hicks, a member of the department’s SWAT team, said he began providing security for other officers and searching the area for a gunman.
“I had to pull myself away from that and focus on the job,’’ Hicks testified.
The sole survivor of the massacre was lying in a bush, bleeding from a gunshot to the back of his head, when a Boston police officer found him. Marcus Hurd could not move his legs or arms, but he was able to speak with stunned officers who found him.
Officer Joseph Brown described the scene as “scary, terrifying.’’
Brown testified that as he walked past the body of one murder victim, he heard his partner, Officer Sean Paul, shouting for help.
