In the early morning hours of January 27, 2014, the life of 28-year-old Teasia Montgomery, a Black female from Medford, Massachusetts, was tragically cut short in a burst of gunfire on Rosewood Street in Boston's Mattapan neighborhood. Responding to reports of shots fired at approximately 2:45 a.m., Boston Police discovered a grim scene. Montgomery was found on the sidewalk, gravely wounded, while a second victim, 25-year-old Clarence McGregor of Dorchester, lay in the street.
Both were rushed to area hospitals but succumbed to their injuries. Montgomery, a mother and a graduate of Lincoln Technical School with a certification in massage therapy, was remembered by a family friend as a sweet woman who was striving to improve her life.
The investigation into the double homicide suggested the shooting was not a random act of violence; prosecutors and police believed McGregor and Montgomery were the intended targets in what was described as a gang-related incident. Adding to the tragedy, Montgomery's ex-boyfriend had been killed just hours before her own death. For two years, Boston Police homicide detectives and Suffolk County prosecutors meticulously pieced together the evidence. Their painstaking work, which included analyzing ballistics, witness statements, and cell tower records, eventually led them to identify three suspects. All three men had prior gun-related convictions.
The first two suspects were brought into custody in the spring of 2016. Steven Stephen, 26, was already in state custody on an unrelated gun charge, while Tony Evans, 25, was apprehended in Charlotte, North Carolina. Both men were arraigned in April on two counts of first-degree murder and one count of unlawful possession of a firearm. The third and final suspect, 29-year-old Lorenzo Jones Jr., was arrested in Augusta, Georgia, in May 2016 by U.S. Marshals. He faced the same charges of two counts of first-degree murder and one count of unlawful possession of a firearm in connection with the deaths of Teasia Montgomery and Clarence McGregor.
