This is an ongoing local story.
The mentally ill young man arrested in the brutal killing of a Peabody woman who worked in the group home where he lived had exhibited an escalating pattern of violence in recent years, including a vicious assault on his stepfather, court records show….Four years ago, Chappell kicked, punched, and fractured his stepfather’s eye socket after the man fired him from a construction job, records show. In 2009, a former girlfriend filed a restraining order against him, her second in five years, saying Chappell was leaving threatening phone messages saying that “he was going to get me and I was going to see who he was.”…Court files in Chelsea and Roxbury paint a portrait of an increasingly dangerous young man. Starting in 2000, Chappell faced several assault charges, and each was dismissed for reasons that are unclear in the court records. However, his 2006 assault on his stepfather resulted in a one-year prison term, which included a requirement that he continue mental health treatment, including anger management training.
Chappell ultimately served only three months of that sentence in early 2007, and months after being released, he was admitted to a psychiatric facility at Massachusetts General Hospital.
I’ve been pawing over stories to find the exact cause of death, but it sounds like a beating of some sort, which is also this asshole’s MO.
A long history of “Gun Death” right there. Also some bad justice that an innocent women would be exposed to such a violent beast. I don’t see much value in attempting to rehabilitate known monsters if it means getting non-violent good people hurt and killed in the process. They made their bed, and they should rot in it as far as I’m concerned.
And to think, some people simply focus on guns, like somehow they’re relevant to cases like this. All the people I associate with are less dangerous when armed with Machine guns and explosives than this jerk is simply unfettered and unarmed.
It is NOT the tool we need to keep an eye on!
