BOSTON, March 12, 2018—A Roxbury man convicted last week of a 2015 home invasion in Dorchester faces sentencing later today, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said.

EMMANUEL CALLWOOD, 34, will be sentenced this afternoon after a Suffolk Superior Court jury on Friday found him guilty of home invasion, armed robbery, and two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. Jurors acquitted Callwood of a second charge of armed robbery.

Assistant District Attorney Kacie Sherman of the DA’s Major Felony Bureau presented evidence and testimony over the course of a three-day trial to prove that an unknown assailant attacked the victim as he entered an Island View Place apartment building on March 29, 2015. The man stabbed the victim with a knife and robbed him in the building’s foyer. The man then dragged the victim down the hallway while using the victim’s keys to attempt to open apartment doors until finding the victim’s unit, prosecutors said.

Once inside the apartment, the armed intruder forced a second victim who was present in the apartment to fill a bag of valuables and electronics. During the course of the home invasion, the victims fought against the intruder and both suffered stab wounds; one victim retrieved a kitchen knife in self-defense. The assailant was cut during the altercation before fleeing.

Boston Police responded to the scene and collected evidence, including the knife with the intruder’s blood on the blade. Boston Police criminalists produced a DNA profile from the blood evidence and entered that profile into the Combined DNA Index System, or CODIS. In June 2016, the DNA profile was matched to that of Callwood, who had been required to submit a DNA sample as the result of a prior felony conviction.

Michael Coffey is the DA’s assigned victim-witness advocate. Callwood is represented by Larry Kelly. Sentencing before Judge Maureen Hogan will take place at or around 2 p.m. today in courtroom 815 of Suffolk Superior Court.

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