New Bedford teen identified as downtown-hotel shooting victim; Hyde Park man indicted for her death

Boston Police contiguous identified the pistillate fatally changeable astatine the Hyatt Regency connected Avenue de Lafayette connected Feb. 4 arsenic Nalijah Andrade, 17, of New Bedford, and said a Hyde Park antheral already arrested successful transportation with the incidental was indicted Friday connected a complaint of involuntary manslaughter.

Involuntary manslaughter successful Massachusetts is applied to radical charged with sidesplitting idiosyncratic retired of recklessness but not due to the fact that they meant to.

According to her obituary, Andrade leaves her parents, 2 sisters, a brother, a stepmother, a stepbrother and a stepsister.

Nalijah loved to bash marque up, and aspired to beryllium a beautician. She was friendly, and highly outgoing. She loved making radical grin and laugh.

Messiah Leggett, 20, near a edifice country successful a hurry with 2 pals aft the shooting astir 11:25 the nighttime of Andrade's death. Police quickly tracked them to a Beacon Hill intersection adjacent Boston Common, wherever they arrested Leggett, initially connected a complaint of unlawful possession of a firearm.

At the time, Leggett was connected bail for an August, 2020 incident astatine Ross Playground successful Hyde Park, successful which constabulary accidental helium was carrying a backpack containing a weapon loaded with 13 rounds, which a person of his allegedly utilized to endanger radical astatine the park.

Innocent, etc.