A Brooklyn fugitive stands accused of killing a 75-year-old Boston man in his personal residence, consuming the sufferer’s meals after the reported homicide and sleeping within the sufferer’s mattress earlier than leaving their physique to be found by police the following day, in line with the Suffolk County District Lawyer’s Workplace.

An investigation led authorities to cost Dion Pelzer, 30, a fugitive out of Brooklyn, New York, in reference to the alleged homicide of David MacDonald, 75, in MacDonald’s Boston West Finish neighborhood residence in February.

Pelzer had an arrest warrant out of Brooklyn for a Jan. 23 knife assault that left a sufferer with a number of slash wounds.

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On Feb. 15 at round 9:30 p.m., surveillance footage from MacDonald’s Boston residence on 65 Martha Street confirmed a person who investigators imagine to be Pelzer strolling into the constructing. The footage reportedly shows Pelzer taking an elevator as much as the residence constructing’s eleventh ground the place he walked door to door to verify to see if one was unlocked, in line with prosecutors.

After taking the elevator all the way down to the tenth ground and again as much as the eleventh ground, Pelzer continued to verify for unlocked doorways till he stumbled upon MacDonald’s unlocked residence.

MacDonald usually leaves his door unlocked so his neighbors and Good Samaritan companies equivalent to Meals on Wheels America may deliver meals with out him having to rise up and open the door, Suffolk County County Assistant District Lawyer Ursula Knight acknowledged.

Pelzer is accused of strolling into MacDonald’s residence and slashing his throat. Prosecutors acknowledged that Pelzer went on to eat MacDonald’s meals and sleep on the 75-year-old sufferer’s sofa after the alleged homicide.

At 8:40 a.m. the following morning, MacDonald’s neighbors knocked on his door — which was unusually closed and locked — and obtained no response. Prosecutors stated surveillance footage exhibits Peltzer leaving MacDonald’s constructing at round 9:13 a.m. that very same morning. The person reportedly stole MacDonald’s pockets, bank cards and keys earlier than he left.

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MacDonald’s useless physique was found by police throughout a wellness verify later that very same day.

After investigating surveillance footage and different proof, authorities issued a warrant for Pelzer’s arrest on Friday, March 10. On Monday, March 13, Boston police responded to a disturbance at Tufts Medical Heart and arrested a person, later recognized as Pelzer, in line with the Suffolk County District Lawyer’s Workplace.

Pelzer was charged with homicide in reference to MacDonald’s dying. He additionally faces a fugitive from justice cost out of New York.

A decide ordered Pelzer to be held with out bail, he’s due again in courtroom on April 12.

“All the things about this case is terrifying, from this man surreptitiously getting into a secured residential constructing, to his testing the doorways on quite a few items, and, finally, to his brutal killing of Mr. MacDonald and his remaining within the residence with the physique till the following morning. It is a tragic reminder of how necessary it’s to be alert to a non-resident making an attempt to slide right into a locked constructing behind you,” Suffolk District Lawyer Kevin Hayden stated.