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The Boston Globe THURSDAY, MAY 19, 2005 Ex-boyfriend on trial in 1985 slaying IliHIIIIItlHHMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIItllllllllllllHMMIIIIIIIHIIIHIIIHIIIIIIMIIIIimillllllllllllll New England in brief Woman sought to sever ties, prosecutors say By John Ellement GLOBE STAFF More than 20 years after Gayla Tyler was fatally wounded inside her Jamaica Plain apartment, her former boyfriend went on trial in Suffolk Superior Court yesterday where a prosecutor said Louis King Jr. shot Tyler because she B2 City Region DERRY, N.H. Sex offender wanted in Mass. arrested A third person oh the Massachusetts most-wanted sex offender list was arrested at his home in Deny about 6:30 last night, State Police reported. Paul J.

Pettipas, 51, was wanted by Watertown, Mass, police for failing to register as a sex offender and Deny police for failing to register as a sex offender and failing to appear in court on charges of driving under the influence, State Police reported. Pettipas was convicted in 1984 of rape of a child and indecent assault and battery on a child under 14, State Police said. He is considered a level 3 sex offender. He is being held in Deny, State Police reported. He is the third person arrested since State Police updated their most-wanted sex offender list on May 13.

wanted to end their relationship. Tyler, who was 21 at the time, was romantically involved with King, then a 28-year-old making his living, ac i I GAYLA TYLER Slain at age 21 Clifton Shanks and Samuel Harper were both taken into custody last week. SOMERVILLE Woman pleads not guilty in cab stabbing A Somerville woman was arrested early yesterday and pleaded not guilty at her arraignment in the Sunday night stabbing of a Boston cabdriver, the Middlesex district attorney's office said. Karen Boyle-Gilbert, 21, faces charges including armed assault with intent to murder. Police said they are seeking a second suspect, James Alfeiri, 3 1 of Somerville, on similar charges.

Yesterday, Middlesex deputy sheriffs released Rafael Caminero, 19, of Somerville, who had been arrested Sunday night after witnesses identified him. Caminero's arrest was probably a case of mistaken identity, police said. Ali Hamadi, a driver for Boston Cab Company, was stabbed multiple times in an attempted robbery on Powder House Boulevard. He was in stable condition Tuesday at Massachusetts General Hospital, police said. The hospital would not confirm Hamadi's condition.

Boyle-Gilbert was held pending a dangerousness hearing scheduled for Tuesday. Anyone with information on Alfeiri's whereabouts is asked to call Somerville police at 617-625-1600. HINGHAM Body of 2d homeless man is identified Hingham police yesterday identified the second homeless man found killed in Bare Cove Park as William P. Chrapan, 44, of Weymouth. Chrapan and David Lyon, 46, also of Weymouth, were living in World War I ammunition bunkers in the park and were both found dead in Chrapan's bunker on May 10.

The men were killed by blunt force, and their bodies apparently had been beaten, said Detective Jerry Mclnnis of Hingham. Police identified Lyon a week ago, but needed dental and medical records to identify Chrapan, whose body was decomposed. Hope Wilson, a nurse at Father Bill's Place, a Quincy homeless shelter, who knew Chrapan and Lyon, said they were quiet, nice men who shunned others. Lyon spent the winter at Father Bill's Place after suffering frostbite and was last seen in April. Police are continuing their GLOBE PHOTOLISA POOLE worker who went on trial yesterday at Suffolk Superior Court in degree murder.

cording to his attorney, by selling marijuana. In an opening statement in the second-degree murder case, First Assistant Suffolk Dis-- trict Attorney Joshua I. Wall told the jury that King shot Tyler in the neck on Easter Sunday April 7, 1985 because she no longer wanted to be his girlfriend. Wall said friends of Tyler's will testify that the slain woman planned to sever her ties with King. The case languished for years until prosecutors charged King based on information that Boston police detectives collected in the late 1990s that indicated tension 'in the relationship between King and Tyler.

King and Tyler confronted each uuiei mai citsici ouuuay, vvo.ii said, but some details about the I 3 'Vj i A a vl Si I fnmmaumM "mf-ir mmimii cnain oi events remain a mystery. "What exactly did he say to her? What exactly did she say to him?" wfl i sain. i nprp arp snmp rnintrs we will never know because she is dead." Tyler was shot once with a caliber pistol, the bullet entering 1 one side of her neck, smashing through her larynx, and exiting investigation and yesterday sealed the concrete bunkers where the men lived. PLYMOUTH Man imprisoned in DUI death held again A 22-year-old Duxbury man who previously had served time for the drunken-driving killing of a Boston firefighter in 2000 was arraigned Monday in Plymouth District Court in another drunken-driving case. Ethan Morgan pleaded not guilty to charges of operating under the influence, larceny of a motor vehicle, receiving stolen property, and negligent operation of a motor vehicle, said Bridget Norton Middleton, a spokesman for the Plymouth district attorney.

Morgan was also charged with operating a motor vehicle after revocation of license, which was revoked for a prior motor vehicle homicide. He was arrested early Sunday morning and was released on $2,000 cash bail, which was revoked at his arraignment because of a pending criminal case in Wareham. Morgan was 17 when he ran a stop sign and was involved in the accident that killed veteran firefighter Robert Greene. He is due back in Plymouth District Court on June 24. from the other side.

After Tyler was hit, he said, she collapsed on a bed and was screaming in pain when King di- aled 911 and report- Defense lawyer James Doyle (left) and First Assistant District Attorney Joshua I. Wall presented their opening statements yesterday during the trial. The case had languished for years until prosecutors charged King. ed that someone had "What exactly did she say to him? There are some things we will never know because she is Joshua I. Wall Prosecutor been shot inside the 1 Amory Street apart- I ment.

Wall said King never mentioned who was shot, never BOSTON Suspect held in slaying of off-duty deputy A Charlestown man accused of fatally stabbing an off-duty Suffolk County deputy sheriff was ordered held without bail yesterday, Suffolk district attorney spokesman David Procopio said. Francis X. Lang, 30, was indicted last week on charges of first-degree murder in the death of Sergeant Richard Dever, 35, a correction officer. Lang allegedly stabbed Dever, of Dorchester, four times in the chest and slashed his face on March 19, after Lang was escorted out of Sullivan's Pub in Charlestown and got into a fight with Dever. Dever was unarmed and off duty, Procopio said.

Lang is due back at Suffolk Superior Court on June 14 for a pretrial hearing. identified himself to 911 operators, and 1 instead of staying and trying to help save Tyler's life, he picked up the gun and ran outside. "He shot I her in the neck and left her, bleed-f ing to death," Wall said. Arriving Boston police officers encountered King, found the al- leged murder weapon in his car, and then took him in for question- ing. King, a former youth worker p.

in Boston, told police that two 4 Louis King a onetime youth Boston, is charged with second Puerto Ricans had broken into the apartment and shot Tyler, Wall said. Then King said he grabbed the gun and fled because he feared police would wrongly accuse him of shooting Tyler. "Domestic violence murders can come not just from hate, but from love and control," Wall said. But King is no killer, King's attorney told jurors. James Doyle said he does not know who ended Tyler's life.

"We won't solve the crime for you. I won't produce the real killer," he said. "That's Perry Mason," referring to a longtime television series featuring a swashbuckling criminal defense lawyer. Doyle told jurors that witnesses will not convince them that Tyler and King's relationship was rocky enough to drive King to kill. He said that even prosecution witnesses will describe good will between the two, not violence.

Doyle said Tyler's mother, Catherine, who spoke with her daughter by telephone the day she died, will help King's case because Tyler did not speak harshly of King in that final conversation. Catherine Tyler has become active in helping other family members of homicide victims. Doyle acknowledged that King made an "indefensible" decision when he ran from the apartment, leaving Tyler bleeding to death. But, he said, the fact that Tyler was shot only once shows that GLOBE POOL PHOTO James Costin pleaded guilty in Salem Superior Court. fore this incident," said Steve O'Connell, spokesman for the Essex district attorney.

A second suspect in the attack, Thomas Duda, of Lynn, also a Hell's Angel, pleaded not guilty last year to assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, two counts of assault and battery, and improper storage of a gun. He is due back in court June 1 During the hearing, John V. Apruzzese, Essex assistant district attorney, said Costin was unprovoked when he punched Coleman in the side of his face about 10:30 on the night before Thanksgiving, knocking him off his bar stool. Coleman began to address Costin, and someone in the restaurant identified Coleman as a police lieutenant, Apruzzese said. Costin then swore at Coleman and i tttHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIMIllllllllllllMIIIIIIIIIIMtlllllllltlllllltllllftlMlitlllllllllllll Hell's Angel sentenced in assault Cite Boston C5lobe Directory GLOBE PHOTOVLISA POOLE couple in 1985, but did tell investigators about it years later when the killing was reexamined.

Another grand jury heard the case and King was again indicted on charges of second-degree murder, setting the stage for yesterday's trial. If convicted, King faces life imprisonment with parole possible after 15 years. After opening statements, the jury visited the Jamaica Plain building where Tyler died. The trial, before Suffolk Superior Court Judge Margot Botsford, is scheduled to resume today. John Ellement can be reached at ellementglobe.com.

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Quinlan ruled that prosecutors should have disclosed to the grand jury that a girlfriend of Tyler's did not mention tension between the punched him in the face again, Apruzzese said Apruzzese said Coleman, who did not speak in court, needed 18 stitches on his lip and surgery on his nose. He said Coleman has suffered "personal and professional hardship." Sitting in the witness stand for most of the proceedings, Costin answered a series of questions from Agnes aimed at making sure he understood the ramifications of changing his plea and waiving his right to a jury trial. Asked twice by Agnes whether he agreed with the facts laid out by Apruzzese, Costin admitted he was not acting in self-defense when he attacked Coleman. Costin's lawyer Michael Hickey called the attack "a very regrettable episode in Costin's life" and, in asking Agnes for leniency, cited his client's state job and work running landscaping and snow-plowing businesses. In a statement released after the hearing, DeNucci said Costin was a good employee.

"In his almost 12 years with the office of the state auditor, we never had a problem with him," according to the statement, read by he took an action that he now has to pay the consequences for. Effective today, his employment is terminated." Scott Goldstein can be reached at sgoldstein globe.com. a Home Delivery Contact Us: Phone: (888) MY GLOBE (888)694-5623 Fax: (781)466-1819 Web: www.bostonglobe.cora subscribe Office Hours: Mon. Fri. 6 a.m.

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He was sentenced to 2V4 years in the House of Correction, with 15 months to be served and the rest suspended for five years of probation. Judge Peter Agnes also ordered him not to associate with the Hell's Angels. Costin had initially pleaded not guilty, but yesterday changed his plea and admitted he attacked Vernon Coleman on Nov. 24, at the Buchanan Cafe in Lynn. A second charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon was dropped as part of the plea.

Costin, a field auditor in the state auditor's office, had been on unpaid administrative leave since the arrest and until yesterday, said Glenn Briere, spokesman for state Auditor A. Joseph DeNucci. Authorities do not know why Costin targeted Coleman. "We don't have any evidence that Costin knew who Coleman was be- Advertising Classified (617)929-1500 Mon-Frt a.m.-8:30 p.m., Sat-Sun p.m. Place a classified ad online at: www.bostonglobe.comclassifieds Display Adv.

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