Second Individual Charged in Connection to Monday Morning New Bedford Homicide

Bristol County District Attorney’s Office

Thomas M. Quinn III
District Attorney

Press Release
July 6, 2023​​​​

A second individual connected to the ongoing investigation into the Monday morning homicide of 20-year-old Lorenzo Gomes, District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III announced.

Wyllie Monteiro, 25, of New Bedford, was arrested early this morning in Dartmouth and is being charged with Accessory to Murder-After the Fact.  He will be arraigned this morning in New Bedford District Court.

He is the second defendant charged with being an accessory to the murder.  On Monday evening, Sterling Robinson, 24, of New Bedford was located and apprehended in Fall River.  He is currently being held without bail after having his bail revoked on a previous case.

The investigation into the homicide remains extremely active at this time and no further information can be disseminated.

Massachusetts State Police detectives assigned to the district attorney’s office, New Bedford Police and Homicide Unit prosecutors are actively investigating a homicide, which occurred early Monday in the City of New Bedford.

At around 12:11 am Monday, New Bedford Police received a 911 call regarding shots fired in the area of Tallman and North Front streets.

Responding officers were approached by witnesses who reported hearing loud bangs that sounded like gun shots.  Several officers searched the surrounding area and eventually located the victim inside his vehicle on Belleville Avenue.

The victim, later identified as Lorenzo Gomes, 20, of New Bedford, appears to have attempted to drive to the hospital before losing consciousness in his vehicle.  EMS rushed him to Saint Luke’s Hospital, where he was later pronounced deceased.

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