Man who strangled pregnant fiancee to death now accused of murdering roommate

A 42-year-old Massachusetts antheral who spent much than 15 years successful situation for sidesplitting his large fiancee finds himself down bars again, this clip for allegedly murdering his roommate.

Taylor Hurst is accused of beating 52-year-old Stephen Gomes to decease successful July successful Boston. Police arrested Hurst connected Thursday connected a murder charge.

Prosecutors with the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office described the alleged people of events — arsenic good arsenic Hurst's transgression past — during a tribunal proceeding Friday, section NBC affiliate WBTS reported. After responding to calls for a decease probe connected July 6 successful the country of 56 Patten Street, Boston constabulary recovered Gomes' assemblage nether a bed, and his look had "significant and aggregate fractures" on with different caput trauma, prosecutors said.

Earlier that day, Hurst allegedly fled a postulation halt successful Gomes' SUV aft cops approached the conveyance for being illegally parked. The suspect reportedly admitted to getting into a combat with his roommate.

Hurst made his archetypal quality from a infirmary furniture and his lawyer said she had concerns astir his "ability to appreciate" the charges against him owed to an unspecified "medical condition."

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Hurst has been retired of situation since 2023, aft helium served astir 15 years down bars for the 2007 slaying of his large fiancee Katherine MacDougall. He was primitively facing a execution complaint aft cops recovered her strangled to decease successful March 2007 astatine their location successful Worcester. The suspect ended up pleading blameworthy to manslaughter the adjacent twelvemonth aft the victim's household pleaded for mercy.

At the time, according to the section Worcester Telegram & Gazette, MacDougall's household noted that Hurst was nether immoderate "very almighty drugs" erstwhile helium killed MacDougall. The victim's member work a connection to the court, per the Telegram & Gazette:

In the people of trying to marque consciousness of each of this, from blaming ourselves to choler with Taylor, to a consciousness of hopelessness that things would ne'er beryllium OK again, we person had to inquire ourselves immoderate hard and important questions. The biggest of these were astir love, astir Katie's emotion for Taylor and astir Taylor's emotion for Katie. In exploring the depths of these issues, we person travel to an astonishing decision … Yes, what Taylor did was horrible and inexcusable. But was it unforgivable? We each cognize what it means to request forgiveness and person chosen not to withhold specified from anyone. God implores america to forgive arsenic we person been forgiven. So, successful questioning whether oregon not Taylor could emotion Katie and inactive bash thing truthful horrible, we judge that helium could, and did, and inactive does.

In the end, the justice honored the family's petition and allowed Hurst to plead blameworthy to manslaughter. He was sentenced to 18 to 20 years down bars.

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Prosecutors said Hurst was besides connected probation for carnal cruelty for kicking a puppy portion helium was incarcerated successful 2023, Boston.com reported.

A probable origin proceeding is scheduled for Sept. 17, per WBTS.