Overview
- The Suffolk County district attorney charged Khalil Muhammad, 29, with assault and battery on a person over 60 and unarmed robbery.
- Police say the Dec. 22 incident at 730 Cummins Highway left the victim badly beaten and hospitalized after a neighbor called 911.
- Prosecutors report the victim said an Amazon package was delivered to Muhammad’s apartment, after which he was punched, his $700 Motorola phone was taken, and the attack continued as he fled upstairs.
- Following arraignment, a judge revoked Muhammad’s bail in an open East Boston case and ordered him held on a detention detainer for probation violations.
- The DA cited a history of violent offenses in Massachusetts and New York dating to 2015 and condemned the escalation of a delivery dispute involving an elderly victim.