LYNN — Almost 15 years after the murder of her son, Mona Guzman is speaking out after recently learning the name of her son’s potential killer this past week.
Adam Montgomery has been in the news over the past few weeks regarding the whereabouts of his daughter, Harmony Montgomery, who hasn’t been seen in two years but was just reported missing in December.
Fox25 reported on Wednesday that Montgomery is a suspect in the 2008 murder of Darlin Guzman.
Guzman was shot multiple times in the chest in a parking lot outside of the White Hen Store in Austin Square in Lynn, which is now a 7-Eleven, after an argument with another man.
Guzman said her family was never informed of the name of the suspect in the case regarding her son, so she was shocked when she saw it on the news this past week.
“We never got a name for a murderer, because there were certain things they couldn’t disclose,” Guzman said.
Guzman spoke with a friend when the news came out and said “never in a million years” would they have imagined that Montgomery’s face was going to be the same person who murdered her son.
When her son was killed, Guzman said she was told that they “sort of knew who it was who did it, but they didn’t have sufficient evidence, which was the gun, to prove that this monster was involved.”
But now that his name is out, Guzman said she and her family will never forget it.
Having the murder of her son brought up in the news again after so long is tough and has the family reliving everything all over again, Guzman said, but as a mother, she is worried about Harmony and her safety and whereabouts.
“This is horrible. He is a monster,” Guzman said. “We can’t bring Darlin back and we understand that and would love justice and closure of course, but this little baby, what’s going to happen to her?”
Montgomery, 31, has an extensive criminal record and is currently being held without bail in New Hampshire for a charge of felony second-degree assault against his daughter from 2019, according to multiple news outlets.
He was also charged with one misdemeanor charge of interference with custody and two misdemeanor charges of endangering the welfare of a child, but hasn’t been charged with his daughter’s disappearance.
“He’s not a great person at all,” Guzman said. “He’s a scary person to be on the street.” Montgomery’s wife, Kayla, is also facing several charges including theft in an alleged scheme where she used more than $1,500 in food-stamp benefits on Harmony’s behalf after Harmony was missing, according to multiple reports.
Montgomery was 18 at the time of Darlin’s murder, and Guzman said he should have been put away for his actions and not just given a “tap on the hand” and set free.
“I’m frustrated because we never got justice for our son and things have obviously never been the same, but then again I’m thinking about the little girl too,” Guzman said. “They had to wait so many years for this to come into light and it’s just horrible thinking about what this little girl, his daughter, might’ve gone through. Who knows if she’s still alive? It’s just horrible.”
Guzman said she and her husband have been talking about Harmony’s disappearance and how it has been so long since she was last seen, saying that someone is hiding something.
“They hid it with my son and now they’re hiding it with the little girl as well,” she said. “We’re going to keep following this and we will be there to see justice and to see the light at the end of the tunnel, not only for my son, but for every other person that he has hurt and for that little girl who is his own blood… He is despicable. He is a monster.”
