A 32-year-old case in New Bedford has been solved, but the guy known as the killer was shot and killed in a robbery in 2006, the Bristol County district attorney said Monday.
In 1991, 20-year-old Brent Davis shot and killed Brickenwood’s New Bedford home, prosecutor Thomas M. Thomas said. Quinn in a press release. He is originally from Newport, R. I. , where his mother still lives.
At the time, investigators were to create a comic strip of their suspect, named “Bobby,” who had a circle of relatives in New Bedford. Those relatives called Bobby Reynaldo Suriel from New York, but all the clues leading to the suspect remained unknown. existing, the prosecutor said.
Some 30 years later, a Massachusetts state police officer assigned to the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office continued the investigation and, in 2020, decided that Suriel was a pseudonym. The officer questioned witnesses in the 1991 investigation, who said the shooting was due to a drug confrontation and that Bobby fled to the Dominican Republic after the killing, the prosecutor said.
Another “key witness” told investigators that he was selling cocaine with Bobby at the time and confirmed that Bobby admitted to shooting and killing Davis, Quinn’s office said. Another witness corroborated. From there, Bobby’s relatives, who had previously lived in New Bedford and were interviewed at the time, told investigators that his true identity was Claudio Jorge.
The officer proved with photographs that Jorge matched the 1991 composite sketch, the prosecutor said. Witnesses corroborated photographs of Jorge named Bobby, and his relatives in the Dominican Republic provided investigators with evidence of his death.
According to the prosecutor, Jorge had “a long criminal history for drug and weapons related offenses. “He was imprisoned in New York twice in the 1980s, and after killing Davis, he was arrested in 1992 in New York. He was deported to the Dominican Republic in 1998 and shot dead in a robbery in 2006. He was 40 years old.
Investigators shared the update with Davis’s mother and officially closed the case.