Mattapan man held pending dangerousness hearing on 2021 charges of shooting brother over house dispute

 BOSTON, February 14, 2023 — A Mattapan man was arraigned yesterday on charges that he shot his brother in the head in May 2021 over a dispute about selling the family home, District Attorney Kevin Hayden announced.

TREVOR LAWRENCE, 32, was charged in Dorchester BMC with armed assault with intent to murder, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, and numerous firearms and ammunition charges.  Judge Maureen Flaherty ordered Lawrence held without bail pending a February 16 dangerousness hearing. 

In the early afternoon on May 14, 2021, Boston police responded to a home on Westmore Road for a call of a person shot and found a 38-year-old male suffering from a gunshot wound to the face.  The victim was transported to Boston Medical Center for treatment.  Later that day detectives interviewed the victim, who told them that he and his brother got into a disagreement regarding the sale of the family home.  The victim said he attempted to take photographs of the home’s second floor when Lawrence produced a gun and shot him in the head.

Detectives subsequently executed a search warrant and seized a Taurus 380 firearm with one round in the chamber and five in the magazine.  Detectives also seized a box containing 46 rounds. Investigators sought and secured an arrest warrant for Lawrence.  Members of the Boston police drug control unit apprehended Lawrence while conducting an investigation on Saturday at Balsam and Callender streets in Dorchester.

“Violence should never be an option in a dispute among family members or anyone else, but to see a sibling carry a disagreement to this level of intentional harm is sad in every way,” Hayden said. 

James Borghesani, Chief of Communications