Prosecutor: Fight over kids’ sneakers led to stabbing death

LYNN – A judge ordered a city man held without bail on a murder charge and the victim’s girlfriend held on $10,000 cash bail for assault after a fight over a pair of children’s sneakers led to a fatal stabbing Sunday.Isaac Hendricks, 32, of 3 Mace Place, was arrested and charged with murder; on Sunday. Kyesha Torres, 27, of 42 New Castle St., was arrested and charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, and malicious destruction of property.The two were arraigned in Lynn District Court Monday morning where pleas of not guilty were entered on each person’s behalf.Police arrived at 3 Mace Place at approximately 7:30 a.m. Sunday and found Jonathan Laporte, 26, of Dedham, covered in blood and unable to speak but conscious and breathing.
Laporte was pronounced dead at 10:12 a.m. Sunday at Salem Hospital, with doctors attributing the cause of death to a stab wound to the chest, Essex Assistant District Attorney Aimee Conway said.Conway said the incident beganwhen Torres and Hendrick’s wife, Shanequa Hendricks, got into a fight on Facebook over a pair of children’s shoes. Torres began threatening Hendricks, saying she was coming over to “[expletive] her up,” Conway told the court.Torres allegedly arrived with Laporte at the Hendrick’s house and witnesses reported Torres began screaming and banging on the windows with a baseball bat. Shanequa Hendricks allegedly emerged with a machete and the two females began arguing. Conway said Laporte came onto the porch and Isaac Hendricks rushed at him and tackled him, later admitting to police that he stabbed Laporte twice during the ensuing scuffle.Judge Sabita Singh accepted Conway’s request that Isaac Hendricks be held without bail. Singh ordered $10,000 cash bail for Torres. Both are scheduled to return to court Jan. 23.Shanequa Hendricks said outside the courtroom that the sneakers were a pair of children’s Air Jordans.Please see the complete story in Tuesday’s edition of The Daily Item.