Amos “Ace” Don, 27, of Boston, was convicted Tuesday of first-degree murder for the killing of Erica Field, 29; he was also convicted of armed assault with intent to murder and firearms offenses for shooting Field’s boyfriend, Shameek “JoJo” Garcia, once in the head during the event.
Don shot Field and Garcia after a third person stole a large amount of heroin from him in Lewiston, Maine, where the victims were from, according to court documents. Garcia acknowledged selling drugs for Don, but Field was not involved, said Jake Wark, a spokesman for the Suffolk district attorney’s office....
On Aug. 25, Garcia and Field drove with Don to Dorchester, ostensibly to buy $6,000 worth of drugs, according to court documents. Don directed the victims to a truck storage lot off Norwell Street, where he shot them both in the head from the back seat of the car they were driving, according to court documents....
During the investigation, said Wark, the heroin thief was identified: It was not Garcia.
“This shooting of two people from behind in a car wasn’t out of passion or any kind of heat,” Assistant District Attorney Ian Polumbaum said during sentencing. “It was ice-cold. It was essentially making two lives part of the calculation, part of the cost-benefit analysis of a business decision.”
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Don appeared upbeat, smiling and waving as he walked into court.
Don’s attorney, Stephen J. Weymouth, said in an interview after sentencing that he did not know why Don was so cheerful, calling him “incredibly immature.”
Weymouth said someone else could have pulled the trigger.
“I’ll say this — he’s pleaded not guilty, pleaded not guilty from day one, today told me he didn’t do it, so as far as I know, he didn’t do it,” Weymouth said. “I wasn’t there.”
First-degree murder convictions are automatically reviewed by the Supreme Judicial Court....
Monica Field, 14, at the sentencing of Don, said in her statement that she was so close with her mother that they shared a special ability to know when something bad was happening with each other. The night her mother was killed, she said, she cried the whole night before she went to bed, convinced that her mother would never come home.
“It was a horrible feeling I had inside and to this day I cannot describe it,” she said. “Sure enough, the next morning, my family was all at my house and my [grandmother] woke me up and told me my mother was dead. Everyone was crying, I thought it was a joke, a dream, something besides reality. But no, it was reality.”
As she finished her victim impact statement, Monica Field began crying, and looked for the first time straight at Don. She stared coldly at him as she left the stand.
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