A pizza-delivery man in his 50s was stabbed to death at 742 Hyde Park Ave. in Roslindale shortly before midnight by two men and a woman, who stole his car and then abandoned it behind a church a couple miles away in Hyde Park, police say.
Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis, speaking near the car behind St. Adalbart Church on River Street this morning, said evidence at the murder scene and in the car should help police find the trio even though they have fled the area.
Davis said the three broke into the Hyde Park Avenue house - which has been vacant for about a year - then called a local Domino's for a pizza. When the delivery man, not identified pending notification of his next of kind, arrived, they attacked and killed him.
Davis said somebody who had seen initial media reports about his Subaru wagon noticed it in the church parking lot and called police around 8:30 a.m.
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Good job, murderers
By anon
Thu, 09/02/2010 - 8:21am
You just killed a man for an asset worth less than $3,000. You may have been better off donning a Red Sox cap and knocking over your local bank vault. Capital work guys, just capital.
Holy f*** that is monstrous.
By benos
Thu, 09/02/2010 - 10:22am
Holy f*** that is monstrous.
Oh, come on, people
By Kaz
Thu, 09/02/2010 - 10:40am
You had to kill him to steal his car?
He was a pizza delivery driver. You're rollin' big now in that 190,000-mile 1995 subaru wagon with a fat wad of ones and fives.
Cowards.
Quick execution - cruel and unusual?
By Lanny Budd
Thu, 09/02/2010 - 10:45am
I sentence them to eat those vile Domino's pizzas until they die.
Not to make lite of this
By anon
Thu, 09/02/2010 - 11:48am
Not to make lite of this terrible situation but didn't this happen on an early episode of Law and Order? On the show the teens killed a person just for the fun of it / to see how it would feel.
I hope they find these killers and lock them away for ever.
TV murder
By EM Painter
Thu, 09/02/2010 - 2:31pm
A couple teenagers had killed two pizza delivery men out in the country, and I think that story made it to Law and Order, except the killers were probably rewritten as prep school girls.
On the First 48 generally one kills the other because "he smoked my crack", which means the takeout delivery man is carrying more than enough money to be a target for murder.
I remember that episode too.
By anon
Mon, 09/06/2010 - 10:45am
I remember that episode too. Actually, when I read the article that's what I immediately thought of. Wonder if that's where these monsters got their idea . . . cable channels run old episodes of that show constantly.
Sounds like they have some
By cscott
Thu, 09/02/2010 - 11:52am
Sounds like they have some solid leads. I have to wonder whats going on in their heads to commit such a needless murder. Unless the delivery guy put up a fierce fight its almost unconceivable how you go from mugging to a knife slaying. A pizza guy was robbed at an abandoned house on my street (South in Roslindale) last year but thankfully he lived.
remember the cab driver in brighton?
By bostnkid
Thu, 09/02/2010 - 12:56pm
murdered by two idiots over a small amount of money. senseless.
Scum of the Earth
By anon
Thu, 09/02/2010 - 12:57pm
I hope BPD opens fire on all these cowards
Holy crap - this is a block
By InventingLiz
Thu, 09/02/2010 - 2:06pm
Holy crap - this is a block away from where I live - I drove right by it this morning on my way to work! Feeling very creeped out right now...
Mayor Menino has let Hyde
By anon
Thu, 09/02/2010 - 6:01pm
Mayor Menino has let Hyde Park go to hell. Every other neighborhood has gotten better and Hyde Park has been left to rot. It never was like this and at one time Boston Magazine had it as the safest neighborhood.
Why would the Mayor want to ruin his own neighborhood?
By Ron Newman
Thu, 09/02/2010 - 10:57pm
Considering that he lives there, wouldn't he have more incentive to favor it over other neighborhoods?
That's why he doesn't do more
By InventingLiz
Thu, 09/02/2010 - 11:51pm
That's why he doesn't do more for Hyde Park - so as not to be accused of favoring his own neighborhood at the expense of others.
Changed neighborhood as category
By adamg
Thu, 09/02/2010 - 10:07pm
Heard from a local real-estate broker the house is really in Roslindale. USPS confirms it has an 02131 Zip code (I originally went with Hyde Park because Google Maps said 02136).
Looks about 4 blocks away from our house....
By Michael Kerpan
Thu, 09/02/2010 - 11:53pm
... as the crow flies.
It's definitely in the gray
By InventingLiz
Thu, 09/02/2010 - 11:53pm
It's definitely in the gray area - I know people who live on the side streets behind that side of Hyde Park Ave who say they live in Hyde Park, but the other side of the street is Roslindale...
menino lives in readville
By bostnkid
Fri, 09/03/2010 - 8:23am
his neighborhood is just out of the reach of the violence. quiet little neighborhood with small one family houses. sounds like a lot of the trouble is over along hyde park ave and river street.
i had heard that during the reconstruction of a lot of the cities housing projects famlies had been relocated and this has caused a lot of clashes amongs rivals. i think they just finished the project on washington st in that area. maybe its just a bunch of unfamiliar kids living in a new neighborhood and trying to make names for themselves?
either way, im sorry ofr the pizza guys family. such a waste of life for so little.
Washington Street
By adamg
Fri, 09/03/2010 - 9:02am
Couple of things:
It's not finished and that large building on the corner is mainly for seniors, so it's a bit early to start looking at Washington-Beech as a possible violence hotspot. Most of the tenants are/will be existing Washington-Beech tenants who were moved out for construction. And although it's not far, as the crow flies, from Hyde Park Avenue, it's really a world apart - they don't make it easy to get to the other side of the train tracks.
Also, Menino's had some violence right near his house.
now three people will share
By akon
Fri, 09/03/2010 - 1:57pm
now three people will share 20 dollars,because delivery guys has no more than 20 $.they always left their money in the store.
Victim identified
By adamg
Fri, 09/03/2010 - 6:42pm
Boston Police report he was Richel Nova, 58, of Hyde Park.
Police arrest three suspects
By Anonymous
Sat, 09/04/2010 - 1:04pm
Police arrest three suspects in stabbing death of Hyde Park pizza delivery man
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/201...
Found 2 suspects myspace
By natedogg
Mon, 09/06/2010 - 11:54pm
Found 2 suspects myspace pages:
http://www.myspace.com/yamzl3y011
http://www.myspace.com/bab3fac3617