Everett man convicted of first-degree homicide in loss of life of estranged spouse

Crime

On Dec. 19, 2018, Emilio Matarazzo walked as much as a automobile with a protracted gun, pointed it on the window, and shot his spouse, Ersilia Cataldo Matarazzo, a number of instances.

A jury discovered an Everett man responsible of killing his estranged spouse in December 2018, one month after she had filed for divorce and disclosed verbal and bodily abuse.

Emilio Matarazzo was convicted of first-degree homicide for the Dec. 19, 2018, capturing of his spouse, Ersilia Cataldo Matarazzo, the Middlesex County District Legal professional’s Workplace confirmed in a launch.

The conviction adopted a 16-day trial in Middlesex Superior Court docket. Matarazzo will probably be sentenced on Aug. 10.

On Dec. 19, 2018, round 8:40 a.m., Everett police responded to a report of a capturing on Central Avenue and located 50-year-old Ersilia Cataldo Matarazzo inside her automobile, which was parked within the driveway of her mother and father’ residence, officers mentioned.

She had a number of gunshot wounds in her torso, and officers pronounced her lifeless on the scene, the district legal professional’s workplace famous.

An investigation by Everett and state police assigned to the district legal professional’s workplace revealed that a couple of month previous to the capturing, Cataldo Matarazzo had filed for divorce from her husband and moved into her mother and father’ residence. She had revealed that there had been a protracted historical past of verbal abuse, and extra lately, Matarazzo had turned bodily abusive, strangling and scratching her, authorities mentioned.

The day earlier than the capturing, Matarazzo stopped by a Christmas social gathering at St. Anthony’s Parish, the place the sufferer labored, and demanded to see her. He pushed his daughter in anger exterior of the church after individuals requested him to depart, officers mentioned.

Someday after 8:30 a.m. on Dec. 19, 2018, a witness reported listening to gunshots from her window and observed a person — later recognized as Matarazzo — stroll as much as a automobile on Central Avenue with a protracted gun, intention it on the window, and begin firing the place the sufferer was seated inside, the district legal professional’s workplace famous.

Matarazzo went to the police station later that morning the place he was arrested.

Police additionally secured a warrant and searched a property on Foster Avenue, which Matarazzo owned, and located the homicide weapon — a Beretta .12 gauge shotgun — hidden behind a workbench within the basement. Officers mentioned the gun had the identical serial quantity as a shotgun that was lacking from the gun secure at Matarazzo’s residence.

“Intimate accomplice violence continues to be a big public security and public well being situation,” District Legal professional Marian Ryan mentioned in a press release. “Ms. Cataldo Matarazzo had been subjected to a protracted historical past of abuse that escalated when she tried to depart the defendant. 

“We all know that when a sufferer decides to depart a relationship that point might be extremely harmful and on this case Ersilia Cataldo Matarazzo was senselessly murdered when she left the defendant and filed for divorce,” Ryan continued. “Since her homicide, her household, neighbors and her many pals have drawn consideration to the necessary message that home violence is a neighborhood situation. They’ve helped to lift consciousness and supplied sources to help victims and survivors.”

There have been six home violence homicides in Middlesex County already this yr — two of which occurred in the previous couple of weeks, the district legal professional’s workplace famous.

For a listing of home violence sources in Middlesex County, go to the district legal professional’s workplace web site.

These in want of assist also can attain out to a sufferer witness advocate throughout common workplace hours (8:30 a.m. to five p.m.) through textual content message at 781-281-4066.