"Waltham man accused of killing wife; Police say suspect, 51, pleaded to be shot" by Maria Cramer and Eric Moskowitz, Globe Staff December 31, 2014
WALTHAM — Julio Resto killed his wife after they argued over his failure to get her a Christmas present, according to court documents.
The seemingly petty squabble set off a chain of events that ended with Resto in front of the Waltham Police Department early Wednesday morning, holding the knife he allegedly used to kill his wife, Gloria, and begging officers to take his life.
“Shoot me,” he told them as he stood at the police counter, court documents show. “I have nothing to live for. I just killed my wife.”
Resto, a diminutive 51-year-old who worked as a laboratory formulation technician, stood in court Wednesday afternoon, charged with first-degree murder and seven counts of assault with a dangerous weapon. A not guilty plea was entered on his behalf as dozens of Gloria Resto’s relatives watched, some weeping, some glaring at him.
Hours earlier, they had rushed to the police department to find out what happened to Gloria Resto, a 42-year-old dental assistant with two school-aged sons.
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Gloria and Julio Resto were both well-respected high school basketball referees, said Bill Miller, secretary-treasurer of the MetroWest area’s association of high school basketball officials....
That was the first clue that something was amiss.
According to the statement of probable cause filed in Waltham District Court, Julio Resto had bouts of instability, including an attempted suicide in 2008, when a previous marriage was falling apart and a friend had died. The statement also said that more recently, Gloria Resto wanted her husband out of their home.
On Dec. 26, Gloria Resto spent the night with a friend and avoided her husband, despite his numerous attempts to talk to her. On Dec. 30, she sent him a text message telling him he needed to move out of their home, a condo in the Wellington Crossing complex on Clocktower Drive.
Julio Resto told police that at that point he called his wife’s sister and said he wanted to kill himself.
On Tuesday evening, Gloria Resto came back home and ignored her husband’s attempts to talk to her, the statement said. She went to sleep in a son’s room, while Resto watched a basketball game. At 3 a.m., he went into the room to lie next to her, but she pushed him away.
“This made him angrier,” according to the statement.
He went into the kitchen, grabbed a large butcher knife, and went back into the room.
After stabbing his wife, he tried to kill himself by stuffing a towel in the exhaust pipe of his car, but it failed to work. Then he drove to the police.
At the station, an officer drew his firearm and ordered him to drop the knife. Resto walked toward the officer and six others, still holding the knife. He yelled at least 20 times for police to shoot. At one point, he went outside, where he paced back and forth still begging to be killed. A sergeant arrived at the station and fired a projectile beanbag, striking Resto, who fell to the ground.
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So quick on the trigger in some cases, others not so much to the point where the guy is being allowed to walk around with a knife?
WTF?!!!!!!
And where was all the outrage and protest then?
Around the same time, officers rushed to the couple’s home, where they found Gloria Resto’s teenage son, still sleeping. He had no idea his mother had been murdered and thought she was still sleeping in the other room, according to the statement.
The officers found her in the top bunk in her younger son’s room. Her head and chest were covered with blood.
The killing stunned neighbors of the condo complex atop a hill with views of Boston....
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"Mostly futile crime spree ends with arrest, Boston police say" by Peter Schworm, Globe Staff January 01, 2015
Boston police arrested a man Wednesday after an alleged crime spree that involved a robbery and attempted carjacking, according to police.
Around 6:30 Wednesday morning, a man walked into a CVS pharmacy on Boylston Street, said he had a gun, and demanded the store’s entire supply of Adderall, authorities say.
He left the store empty-handed, after he was told it would take several minutes to complete his order. But his trouble was just beginning, Boston police say.
About an hour later, the man allegedly robbed a Walgreens pharmacy on Washington Street, this time making off with two bottles of Adderall before fleeing on foot.
Officers searched the area but could not find him. But about 45 minutes later, around 8:15 a.m., the suspect allegedly tried to carjack a vehicle near the intersection of Commonwealth and Massachusetts avenues, brandishing a knife in the process.
Again, he failed, but officers saw him running away, and found him on Newbury Street a short time later, police said.
They ordered him to stop, but the man ran off. Drawing their guns, officers caught up to him and confronted him a second time, police said.
“When again issued legal instructions commanding him to stop and show his hands, the suspect ignored the officers and began clutching at his waist area,” police wrote in a news release.
GUN! GUN!
“At this point, several officers converged on the suspect, took him to the ground and handcuffed him.”
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The man was identified as Kerry Bell, 37: “That’s him.”
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