Three Others Charged with Related Offenses
BOSTON, December 21, 2017— The man charged in the fatal shootings of Scott M. Stevens, Jr., and Michaela Gingras has been held without bail after he, two family members, and a romantic partner were indicted in connection with the slayings, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said.
LANCE HOLLOMAN (D.O.B. 1/12/87) was arraigned today in Suffolk Superior Court on two counts each of first-degree murder, unlawful possession of a firearm, and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and a single count of armed assault with intent to murder. At the request of Assistant District Attorney Masai King, Clerk Magistrate Lisa Medeiros ordered Holloman held without bail.
Also arraigned today were MONICKA STINSON (D.O.B. 4/3/80), a Boston Police officer who had a romantic relationship with Holloman, charged with misleading an investigator; Holloman’s sister, LATOYA HOLLOMAN (D.O.B. 10/23/81), charged with witness intimidation; and his mother, DAPHNE HOLLOMAN (D.O.B. 9/15/59) on a charge of misleading an investigator. They were each released on their own recognizance and ordered to surrender their passports.
According to prosecutors, Holloman used a rented Jeep Renegade to repeated ram a sport utility vehicle while driving southbound on the Zakim Bridge at approximately 4:50 p.m. on Sept. 10.
A short time later at approximately 5:10 p.m., prosecutors say, Holloman was driving the same Jeep when he shot and killed 32-year-old Stevens and injured a second man as the victims were riding two motorcycles on Route 93 southbound.
Boston Police later on Sept. 10 arrived to the Santuit Street home where Daphne Holloman and LaToya Holloman reside in separate units in response to a 911 call from Daphne Holloman reporting shots fired. There, they discovered 24-year-old Gingras, who had suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the head. Evidence collected during a joint investigation by Boston Police and State Police detectives assigned to Conley’s office suggests that Gingras was a passenger in the Jeep when Holloman shot Stevens and during the earlier incident on the Zakim Bridge.
Prosecutors told the court that Daphne Holloman provided police with misleading information regarding the discovery of Gingras’ body and the aftermath of the shooting.
In the aftermath of the shootings, the person who had rented the Jeep used by Lance Holloman received two phone calls during which a female caller demanded she report the vehicle stolen. Phone records indicate that the calls were made from LaToya Holloman’s phone, prosecutors said.
King also told the court that Stinson was present at the Santuit Street home on the evening of Sept. 10, that she received three phone calls from Holloman on Sept. 10 and into Sept. 11, and that she later told investigators denying that she had contact with him after the murders, prosecutors said.
Erin O’Connor and Elise McConnell are the DA’s assigned victim-witness advocates. Lance Holloman was represented by Joan Fund, Daphne Holloman by Anthony Ellison, LaToya Holloman by Andrew Stockwell-Alpert, and Stinson by Lawrence Kelly. All return to court Jan. 30.
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All defendants are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
