Police obtain search warrant to massacre victim’s home

Police obtain search warrant to massacre victim’s home

By Christine McConville, Laura Crimaldi and Laurel J. Sweet | Wednesday, September 29, 2010 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Local Coverage

Boston police are executing a search warrant at the home of Simba Martin, who family and sources say was one of the five victims of yesterday’s horrific massacre in Mattapan.
Martin, 21, lived at 23 Sutton St. about half a city block from where the bodies were found on Woolson Street - some of them naked, according to police and witnesses.
Investigators have not said today whether they have any suspects for the slaughters of Martin, Eyanna Louise Flonory, 21, of Dorchester and her 2-year-old son Amani Smith, and Levaughn Washum-Garrison, 22, formerly of Roslindale.
A fifth victim, Marcus Anthony Hurd, 32, is in critical condition and not expected to survive, Police Commissioner Edward Davis said yesterday.
Ebony Flonory, 22, today told the Herald her ill-fated sister, a graduate of Brockton High School, called her 45 minutes before the bloodbath went down from the home of her boyfriend: Simba Martin.
“She was like, ‘Do you want to hear something? Your nephew knows his name,’ ” Ebony Flonory said. “I said, ‘Armani, what’s your name?’ He said, ‘My name is Armani, auntie.’
“It made my day to hear it,” she said. “He kept saying it and saying it.”
Her nephew, she said, “was wonderful. It shouldn’t have happened.”
A woman who identified herself only as “Keisha” today visted the scene of yesterday’s carnage at Woolson and Wildwood streets to see for herself where Flonory, a close longtime friend, was gunned down.
“I was in her life for many years,” said Keisha, adding the former criminal justice student at Bunker Hill Community College was “all about her son.”
Keisha’s daughter, Keanna Gregg, 21, said of Flonory, “She was a nice person and she loved her son more than anything in the world.”
Gregg said she heard the victims were robbed and that the killers came into their house “with their guns drawn and we don’t know what happened next.”
Ironically, Flonory had been studying to become a cop at Bunker Hill Community College, but never returned to classes after the spring semester, spokeswoman Colleen Roach said.
In an e-mail statement released today, Jan Bonanno, dean of student affairs, said, “Bunker Hill Community College joins with the entire Boston community in mourning the loss of life in this tragedy. Our thoughts are certainly with the families and friends of those whose lives have been taken.”
Said Ebony Flonory, “The reason why she wanted to be a police officer (was) she wanted to help young kids on the street. She wanted to stop the violence.”
Local and city leaders have visited the crime scene throughout the day. Local ministers have been counseling grief-stricken relatives as they show up to place flowers, balloons and stuffed animals.
Former Boston City Councilor Michael Flaherty also stopped by and denounced the violence that’s staining the city’s streets.
“A murder like this affects the entire city,” Flaherty said.

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