Lynn man charged with murder

LYNN – A 32-year-old city man was arrested and charged with murder after officials say the man stabbed a Dedham man during a fight Sunday morning.Police responded at approximately 7:25 a.m. Sunday to 3 Mace Place on the report of a fight involving a stabbing, according to Carrie Kimball Monahan, a spokesperson for Essex District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett.Officers arrived at the scene to find the alleged victim, Jonathan Laporte, 26, of Dedham, covered in blood and unable to speak but conscious and breathing. Laporte was taken to Salem Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at approximately 10:12 a.m. Sunday, Kimball Monahan said.Lynn Police, along with investigators from the district attorney’s office, investigated the incident and arrested Isaac Hendricks, 32, of 3 Mace Place, and charged him with murder, Kimball Monahan said. Kyesha Torres, 27, of 42 New Castle St., was also arrested and charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, according to Kimball Monahan. The police log indicates Torres was also charged with malicious and wanton destruction of property, but Kimball Monahan could not confirm that charge.Kimball Monahan said Torres is the girlfriend of the deceased. Preliminary investigation suggests Torres and another woman at the Mace Place residence got into a fight and then Hendricks and Laporte became involved, Kimball Monahan said. The other woman has not been charged with a crime.Kimball Monahan said a knife and a machete were recovered at the scene of the alleged incident.Some neighbors on the dead-end street off of Breed Street said Sunday evening that they hadn’t heard much about what happened, as most people seemed to have been sleeping at the time of the alleged incident. Nevertheless, they said the incident was unusual for the neighborhood.Speaking of recent incidents, one neighbor recalled a murder in the neighborhood – then realized it had happened 30 years ago. But one neighbor also said the street had changed from the mid-1980s, when the neighborhood had mostly older Jewish families who were congregants at the nearby temple.”We moved in in 1985, and it was definitely a quieter neighborhood then,” acknowledged Joanne Moir, who said she slept through the alleged incident but saw police and fire officials respond to the scene throughout the morning. “But we have more diversity now, which I love, and more younger families.”Nevertheless, she and another neighbor agreed that the address where the incident occurred had frequently changing tenants.Kimball Monahan said the defendants are scheduled to be arraigned in Lynn District Court Monday.