Matthew David, a Black/African American man from Cambridge, Massachusetts, is referenced online as having died on December 14, 1992, but a review of contemporaneous reporting, police materials, and historical summaries yields no documented Cambridge homicide by that name and date. The date itself echoes a different tragedy elsewhere in Massachusetts—the Bard College at Simon’s Rock shooting in Great Barrington on December 14, 1992—suggesting that some listings may have conflated events or
misattributed names and locations.
The Cambridge headlines around that period tell a different story. In September 1992, MIT student Yngve K. Raustein was fatally stabbed during a robbery along Memorial Drive; three teenagers—Shon McHugh, Joseph Donovan, and Alfredo Velez—were arrested within minutes and later prosecuted, a case that dominated local coverage that fall. If later summaries mistakenly attached the name “Matthew David” to a 1992 Cambridge homicide, Raustein’s well-documented killing is the incident those summaries most resemble in time and place, not least because arrests were made immediately and trials followed in 1993.
Another Cambridge case from 1992 that resurfaced decades later was the murder of Michelle Miller. She disappeared in late July 1992 and was found dead in a Central Square basement; in December 2024, authorities announced the arrest of Edward J. Watson after a cold-case reexamination suggested a murder-for-hire scheme linked to Miller’s abusive partner, Daniel Innis. That investigation and arrest were widely reported and are sometimes the only 1992 Cambridge homicide appearing in modern roundups—again underscoring that the name “Matthew David” does not appear in official releases or in the archival record tied to a Cambridge death on December 14 of that year.
Taken together, the public record points to two well-sourced Cambridge homicides from 1992—Raustein’s September stabbing with swift arrests, and Miller’s July murder resolved by an arrest in 2024—while no verified report confirms a Cambridge victim named Matthew David dying on December 14, 1992. Where “Matthew David” appears online in connection with that date and city, it is best understood as a likely misattribution rather than a distinct, documented case with identified suspects or arrests.
