‘WHY, WHY, WHY?’
Grieving mom on road-rage suspect’s arrest: I want him to pay for what he did
The day Ana DeBarros buried her only son after he was shot to death in an apparent road-rage incident, Boston police officers came to her home to tell her they had arrested his alleged killer: a convicted drug felon who they said had pulled out a gun in a store less than a week earlier.
“All I want to say to him is, ‘Why, why, why?’ ” she said yesterday as a candle flickered next to a photo of 21-year-old Joey DeBarros on her living room mantel. “Nothing can bring my son back, but I want (his killer) to pay for what he did. If he’s on the street, he’s going to kill again.”
Deonarine Ganga, 29, is charged with murder in connection with the April 13 shooting of DeBarros on Gallivan Boulevard in Dorchester. Authorities say the two men had gotten into a traffic dispute near the corner of Granite Avenue moments before Ganga fatally shot the aspiring computer technician.
“That’s all it’s looking like,” police Commissioner William B. Evans said. “Two individuals who happened to bump into each other at the wrong place and the wrong time, and obviously the frustration got carried away.”
Witnesses provided a description of the car and a partial plate number, leading police to review earlier records, which revealed that the car was registered to a Dorchester woman associated with Ganga, prosecutors said.
Detectives also learned of an ongoing investigation into an April 7 incident at an AutoZone on Dorchester Avenue, where two customers had become involved in an argument and one of them had flashed a handgun and racked the slide in a threatening way before leaving in a vehicle similar to the one involved in DeBarros’ killing, prosecutors said.
After a witness to the AutoZone incident picked Ganga out of a photo lineup, police arrested him Monday on two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon and one count of possessing ammunition without a Firearms Identification Card, according to court records.
Ganga was arraigned in Dorchester Municipal Court and held without bail pending a hearing to determine whether he had violated the conditions of probation on a 2015 plea to drug possession with intent to distribute, prosecutors said.
He is scheduled to be arraigned on the murder charge May 18, the next scheduled court date in the assault case.
The witness to the AutoZone incident told the Herald he was “stunned” to learn that the man who had brandished a gun in the store had, according to authorities, gone on to kill someone less than a week later. “Wow,” said the witness, whose name the Herald is withholding. “Anything could have happened. I’m just happy he’s not out there hurting anyone else.”