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Woman charged with murder in connection to Waltham shooting
Another woman was charged in connection with the death last month.
A 31-year-old Quincy woman has been charged with murder in connection with the fatal shooting of Zharia Wilcox-Ellis, 24, of Waltham, that occurred on Aug. 2, officials announced Tuesday.
At about 11:30 p.m. that day, Waltham police responded to a parking lot next to an apartment building on Second Avenue where they found Wilcox-Ellis with a gunshot wound, according to a statement from the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office.
She was pronounced dead at the scene.
An ongoing police investigation found that the projectiles in the victim’s body matched ballistics evidence from a .380 firearm registered to Kaire Holman, the statement says.
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Holman is the second person charged in connection with Wilcox-Ellis’s death — video surveillance allegedly shows Melanie Williams striking the victim during an altercation “outside the apartment building where the defendant resides and the victim was known to visit” prior to the shooting, the office said.
Williams, 30, of Waltham, was charged with assault and battery on a household or family member last month. Holman was set to be arraigned at 2 p.m. on Tuesday.
The Middlesex District Attorney’s Office, the Massachusetts State Police Detective Unit assigned to the DA’s office, and Waltham police are investigating the case.
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