SUSPECT HELD ON CHARGES LINKED TO QUADRUPLE SLAYING

A Dorchester man had his bail on an open assault case revoked and was held on an additional half-million dollars’ cash bail following his arraignment in connection with the shooting deaths of a two-year-old boy and three adults on Woolson Street late last month, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said today.

KIMANI WASHINGTON (D.O.B. 10/17/75) was formally charged in Dorchester District Court this morning with two counts of unlawful possession of a firearm and single counts of possession of a Class D substance, trafficking in a Class B substance, and receiving a stolen motor vehicle. Washington was charged as an armed career criminal in light of two prior drug convictions in Suffolk Superior Court and an assault and battery conviction in Dorchester District Court.

Assistant District Attorney Edmond Zabin, chief of Conley’s Homicide Unit, recommended that Washington be held on $1 million cash bail, telling Judge Rosalind Miller that “this defendant was in possession of one of the murder weapons, the surviving victim’s motor vehicle, and a large quantity of crack cocaine” in the aftermath of the Sept. 28 homicides.

Washington gave Boston Police a taped statement admitting that he possessed those items, Zabin said.

The investigations into the shooting deaths of Eyanna Flonory; her son, Amanihotep Smith; Simba Martin; and Levaughn Washum-Garrsion on Woolson Street remains “active and ongoing,” Zabin said, with investigators working to determine Washington’s “exact role in the murders.”

Martin and the surviving victim were naked when Boston Police arrived at the scene, Zabin said. Martin, Washum-Garrison, and Flonory were pronounced dead at the scene; Smith, the toddler, was transported to an area hospital where he, too, died of his injuries.

Zabin credited the surviving victim’s words to police before lapsing into unconsciousness with providing a starting point for the investigation. That man, who remains in critical condition, told officers that the people who had shot him had stolen his gray Ford sport-utility vehicle. Alert Boston Police officers assigned to District B3 spotted that vehicle – and Washington in close proximity to it – later that morning. Washington had the car keys in his possession at that time.

Washington was interviewed at the scene and provided officers with his name and address. After additional investigation, Boston Police attempted to speak with Washington at his mother’s address; he was not there and, when told over the phone that the police were looking for him, he hung up and left the area. He was later tracked to Manchester, New Hampshire, from where he was returned last night after waiving rendition proceedings.

Washington was ordered to return to court on Nov. 5. His next date will be in the Suffolk County Gun Court, to where most cases of firearms possession are procedurally routed after arraignment. Catherine Rodriguez and Kara Hayes are the assigned victim-witness advocates. John Salsberg represents the defendant.