Police: Live-in boyfriend stabbed woman to death in kitchen of mobile home in Lunenburg
LUNENBURG - The live-in boyfriend of a Lunenburg woman has been charged with stabbing her to death at the mobile home park where they lived.
Maria Murray, 53, was attacked at the Meadow Woods complex at 1790 Massachusetts Ave. about 8:45 p.m. Tuesday, according to a police report filed with court records.
Murray, with stab wounds in her back, was rushed to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead, court records show.
Officers later apprehended her boyfriend, Orlando Garcia Rosado, on Interstate 290 in Worcester.
In Fitchburg District Court Wednesday afternoon, Rosado, 57, was arraigned on charges of murder and assault and battery on a household member. Judge Jon L. Revelli entered not-guilty pleas on the defendant’s behalf and ordered him held without bail. Lawyer Tom G. Vukmirovits represented Rosado.
In the courtroom, Assistant District Attorney Timothy A. Westerman presented the state's case, which was translated to the defendant through a Spanish interpreter.
Westerman said the defendant and the victim were in a dating relationship and lived together at Meadow Woods.
Police said Rosado and Murray were arguing in the kitchen of the mobile home when Rosado grabbed a knife and assaulted her, court records show.
Police tracked down Rosado after reviewing surveillance footage from Meadow Woods, according to court records. He was seen driving away in Murray's Subaru Impreza. Police departments in the region were given a description of the vehicle. State troopers located the vehicle on I-290 a short time later. Rosado was taken into custody.
At Meadow Woods, a police officer kept watch on a house at Lot 44 throughout Wednesday morning.
Residents of Meadow Woods said Murray lived with her teenage son at Lot 44.
Bernard Progin, who lives across the street, said he brought the teen to his house Tuesday evening as police converged on the scene. The boy's father eventually came to pick him up, Progin said.
Progin spoke fondly of the woman, a single mother.
“She’s the hardest-working woman I ever met in my life," he said. "She was working two jobs. She did bus monitoring…and cleaning houses. She would come home 5, 6 at night.”
Progin said Murray's boyfriend had recently moved into the house.
Tuesday evening, he said, he saw the boyfriend get into the Subaru and drive away.
“I thought that was odd because the boyfriend did not have a license," Progin said.
Like Progin, neighbors were trying to sort out the events at the usually quiet mobile home complex.
William and Lana Charest, who live next door to Lot 44, also said they knew Murray for a long time. Lana Charest said she used to babysit for the son when the mother went to work.
“We came out to Lunenburg to get away from the city (of Worcester) because it was getting wild in the city,” William Charest said.
This article originally appeared on Telegram & Gazette: DA Joseph Early: Police investigating death at Lunenburg mobile home complex
