6-Jun-2023

TrueAllele helps deliver justice in college footballer shooting

A Cybergenetics expert recently testified in a Massachusetts shooting case. On October 14, 2017, 20-year-old Franklin Pierce University football player Kevin Raymond was shot in a Somerville parking lot. He was rushed to a hospital and pronounced dead. Police collected a firearm and cartridge casings found near the crime. They swabbed a rental car steering wheel for DNA. The complex DNA evidence contained 4 (firearm) or 5 (rental car) contributors, too hard for less eective soware to solve. The Middlesex County District Attorney's Oice sent their case to Cybergenetics for informative TrueAllele processing.

TrueAllele resolved the mixtures, associating the firearm and rental car with suspect Tony Harris. The computer connected the firearm to Harris with a 277 million match statistic. And connected Harris to the rental car at 3.08 million. On May 25, 2023, Cybergenetics analyst Jennifer Bracamontes testified at the Woburn trial about these DNA match results. On June 6, the jury found Tony Harris guilty of second-degree murder. Sentencing is pending.

Links

• 'He didn’t deserve it' — Family, friends mourn slain Somerville man - Boston Globe
• Everett Man Held Without Bail In Murder Of 20-Year-Old In Somerville - WBZ CBS News Boston