Thursday, 4:30 PM
Brockton man charged with murdering girlfriend who turned him in
By Globe Staff
A 29-year-old Brockton man who was out on bail after a shooting last year allegedly shot and killed his girlfriend early today at his parent's home.
Amaral Montrond shot Carlita Chaney, 27, of Spartanburg, S.C., at around 1:40 a.m. at a house on Montauk Road, Plymouth district attorney's spokeswoman Bridget Norton Middleton said.
Montrond was arraigned this afternoon in Brockton District Court on murder and several firearms charges. He was ordered held without bail and sent for a competency evaluation to Bridgewater State Hospital, Middleton said.
Montrond told police that the shooting, which left an apparent gunshot wound to Chaney's left temple, was an accident, Middleton said. Montrond's lawyer, James Greenberg of Boston, didn't have a comment.
Prosecutors said Chaney last year turned Montrond into police at her South Carolina home, where he had fled when he was sought in the earlier case.
Police were looking for Montrond for his alleged involvement in a Sept. 2, 2006 shooting on a downtown street. He was arrested the next month at Chaney’s home.
After he was returned to Massachusetts, prosecutors requested that he be held on $500,000 bail. Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Locke set bail at $50,000 cash and Montrond was able to make bail, Middleton said.
Witnesses told investigators that Chaney, who had two children by Montrond, was about to return to South Carolina after a visit to the house where Montrond lived with his parents.
Chaney said she felt she had overstayed her welcome and that Montrond was getting an "attitude" about her, the witnesses said. Chaney also told the witnesses that Montrond had been referring to her as a "snitch."
A prosecutor told District Court Judge David Turcotte at the arraignment that Chaney had turned Montrond into the Spartanburg police, Middleton said.
The homicide was the 11th in Brockton this year.
It came as a vigil was planned for noon today at the court complex on Main Street to remember another woman who was killed in a domestic violence incident Sunday morning.
