December 4, 2023

Crime

Kermith Alvarez, 28, of Holyoke, was on the run for the reason that Oct. 4 capturing and had been positioned on the Massachusetts State Police’s 10 most needed listing.

Legislation enforcement officers examine the scene the place a number of had been shot, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023, in Holyoke, Mass. AP Picture/Steven Senne, File

HOLYOKE, Mass. (AP) — A 3rd suspect has surrendered to police in reference to an investigation right into a capturing in Holyoke final month the place a pregnant girl on a bus was hit by a stray bullet and delivered a child that later died.

Kermith Alvarez, 28, of Holyoke, turned himself in to authorities on Friday, based on the Hampden District Lawyer’s workplace. Alvarez was on the run for the reason that Oct. 4 capturing and had been positioned on the Massachusetts State Police’s 10 most needed listing.

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He’s scheduled to be arraigned on Monday in Holyoke District Courtroom on a homicide cost. He has but to be assigned an legal professional who may communicate on his behalf, based on the court docket clerk’s workplace.

5 individuals have been named by prosecutors following the capturing.

“All concerned suspects are believed to have been recognized and at the moment are in custody,” Hampden District Lawyer Anthony D. Gulluni’s workplace stated in a written assertion.

Johnluis Sanchez, 30, and Alejandro Ramos, 22, each of Holyoke, had been arraigned final month on homicide expenses. Sanchez was shot through the episode and was hospitalized.

They each pleaded not responsible and had been ordered held with out bail.

Two different people had been arraigned on expenses of accent after the very fact for allegedly serving to Alvarez evade police.

In accordance with investigators, Alvarez, Sanchez, and Ramos had been concerned in an altercation that escalated right into a capturing. It’s believed one of many rounds from that altercation struck the pregnant girl sitting within the bus.

She was taken to a close-by hospital the place she delivered the infant, who died regardless of medical doctors’ efforts to offer emergency remedy.