Overview
- Boston police identified the victim as 29-year-old Latavius Owens of Memphis, who was found with an apparent stab wound and later pronounced dead after being taken to a hospital.
- Transit Police initially responded to the report of a stabbing on the MBTA Red Line platform at South Station, with officers answering a call around 5:33 p.m. on Aug. 12 while evening rush-hour service was briefly suspended.
- Authorities say preliminary evidence points to an altercation on an escalator leading to an exit and have named 17-year-old Marico Levy of Aubrey, Texas, as a murder suspect who remains at large.
- Police asked anyone with video or information to contact the Boston Police Homicide Unit at 617-343-4470 or submit tips anonymously to CrimeStoppers, and investigators continue to review security footage and witness accounts.
- Owens’s family has launched a GoFundMe to return his body to Memphis, raising $1,150 of a $4,500 goal, and the killing has renewed public concern about safety in downtown transit hubs as the probe continues.