A man arrested this weekend for breaking into an apartment was being investigated as a possible suspect in last week's abduction and shooting of a woman who gave birth to a 7-month-old fetus shortly before she died, police said.
The potential suspect in the abduction and shooting of the woman and her husband was arrested late Saturday night at an apartment in Boston's Mission Hill section after investigators were tipped to his whereabouts, police said.The man's name had been on a list of possible suspects in last week's killing of Carol Stuart, 30, and he is believed to be the first of the possible suspects apprehended since the killing, police said. His identity was being withheld.
The apartment had been abandoned by its tenants and was unoccupied, leading police to file the breaking and entering charges, police said.
Police, however, said they needed to pursue more evidence before deciding whether to link the suspect to last week's abduction and shooting of Stuart and her husband, Charles, 29, who also was shot and remained in Boston City Hospital in stable condition.
The Stuarts were returning home from birthing classes at a Boston hospital when they were attacked by a man who climbed into their car at an intersection, forced them to drive to Mission Hill, and then robbed and shot them.
Their son was delivered by Caesarean section shortly before his mother died, and he remained in the neonatal intensive care unit at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Boston police said they may show Charles Stuart photographs of possible suspects Monday if he is physically up to the task.