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Quincy, Massachusetts Man on Trial for Murdering 65-Year Old Woman While He Was On Crack Cocaine

By Altman & Altman

44-year-old Stevie Walker is on Trial in Suffolk Superior Court for the November 4, 2005 stabbing murder of Galina Kotik, a 65-year-old Russian grandmother, inside her Fenway apartment building in Boston. Walker had been smoking crack cocaine for up to 24 hours before he went to Kotik?s building to visit an acquaintance and figure out a plan to rob her so he could get more drugs. A witness for the prosecution testified on Tuesday about how Kotik?s dying cries could be heard. Valentina Tsodikovich says she saw a man with blood on his clothes flee the murder scene. Kotik was a nursing assistant. Prosecutors say that she pulled out one of the Walker?s dreadlocks and scratched his face during the attack. They say that Walker smashed in the elderly woman?s head with an ashtray and stabbed her nearly two dozen times...continue to full post

Full post as published by Boston Criminal lawyer Blog on December 12, 2007 (boomark / email).