Global Courant 2023-05-28 03:26:46
A Massachusetts man is being held without bail and will be under observation in a hospital for 20 days after being charged with beating his neighbor to death.
Dinis Moreira, 69, pleaded not guilty Friday to the murder of Valerie Oakhem, 58, a mother and grandmother, according to the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office.
Police received a call from a relative of Moreira’s just after midnight Friday, saying he arrived at his home in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, to find a woman on the kitchen floor with severe trauma to her head and face.
“The victim was shaking and gasping for air and appeared to be trying to roll over,” prosecutors said. WFXT TV.
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Police received a call just after midnight on Friday about a woman found beaten on the kitchen floor of a home in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. (Google Maps)
Oakhem was transported to the hospital where she was pronounced dead.
Investigators believe Oakhem’s attack was targeted, not random.
The district attorney’s office said that Moreira and Oakhem were friends, and he invited her for drinks the night she was killed.
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“Who expects their relative to be killed with a hammer?” Gail Teed, a friend of Oakhem, told WFXT. “It was not necessary. Absolutely not necessary. This woman has been helping him all the time since his wife died. All the time. She didn’t deserve this, nothing. She didn’t deserve any of this.”
Oakhem’s ex-husband allegedly yelled at Moreira in court on Friday, “See you in hell, Dinis!”
Neighbor Peter Schneider told the TV station that he couldn’t imagine Moreira killing anyone.
“Nice guy, he’d wave at you,” Schneider said. “Come over and gave us some bread a few weeks ago. There’s nothing wrong with that guy.’
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Moreira’s is scheduled to appear in court on June 14.
