Commonwealth v. Rivera

On the morning of August 10, 2001, two armed and masked assailants entered the apartment of Karen Young, Wei Li, and Roland Chow at 40 Parker Hill Avenue in the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston. One assailant bound the occupants’ wrists and ankles with duct tape, and one or both of them searched the apartment for drugs and money. One of the assailants then shot Young six times in the head and Chow once in the head, killing them both. He also attempted to shoot Li but apparently ran out of ammunition. Terrence Brown was linked to the scene by fingerprint evidence. He and Nathan Rivera were…