Overview
- Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden’s office said O’Malley, 33, was arrested Thursday morning and will be arraigned in Roxbury District Court.
- The charge concerns the March 11 shooting that killed Stephenson King, 39, after a police encounter in Linwood Square in Roxbury.
- Police said officers approached a carjacked vehicle on foot, issued multiple commands, then the driver accelerated and struck a cruiser before officers fired.
- King was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead, and the involved officers were evaluated for trauma and not believed to be injured.
- The encounter followed a reported carjacking on Tremont Street in Mission Hill, and the Suffolk DA’s office is leading the investigation per protocol.