Man called ‘Dog Bite’ tracked down

Faces murder charge in stabbing

A man who purportedly goes by “Dog Bite” has been charged with stabbing another man to death in Dorchester last summer and has been ordered held without bail.

Dwight “Dog Bite” Watson, 55, was indicted Sept. 19 for beating and then stabbing to death Urvin Gerald, 48, in Dorchester on July 16. He had allegedly fled the state and couldn’t face the charges until U.S. Marshals located him in Ohio on Jan. 27 and brought him back to Massachusetts.

“This was a careful and methodical investigation by the

Boston Police homicide unit and their efforts have resulted in Mr. Watson being brought back to answer for his actions,” said Suffolk DA Kevin Hayden. “Mr. Watson has found out, as have so many before him, that leaving the state is in no way an escape from justice.”

Watson was arraigned on the murder charge in Suffolk Superior Court Tuesday where Clerk Magistrate Stacey Pichardo ordered him held without bail.

Police responded to Mount Horeb Lodge at 110 Harvard St. in Dorchester shortly after 1 a.m. on July 16 and found Gerald suffering from a stab wound to the neck, according to the Suffolk District Attorney’s office. He was later pronounced dead at Boston Medical Center.

Both Watson and Gerald were attending an unidentified social event at the lodge when they got into some kind of altercation, according to the prosecutor David McGowan’s statement of the case. Lodge security separated the two and escorted Watson out.

Thirty minutes later, Gerald left through the back door and into the parking lot where, McGowan’s statement asserts, security camera footage shows Watson “suddenly appeared and stabbed the victim in the neck.

“Investigators quickly learned that the defendant fled out of state the morning following the murder taking some (personal) belongings,” McGowan wrote in his statement of the case. “Multiple witnesses informed investigators that the defendant told them that he had killed someone and needed to go on the run.”

U.S. Marshals, according to a statement the Service released on Feb. 2, found Watson staying at a home in the 100-block of Maywood Drive in Youngstown, Ohio. and arrested him there on Jan. 27. McGowan states, “the defendant admitted,” following his arrest, “that he had stabbed the victim and fled the state when he learned it had been fatal.”

“Investigators in Boston never gave up on finding this fugitive and an arrest such as this should remind anyone on the run that they cannot hide in Northern Ohio, they will be caught,” said U.S. Marshal for the Northern District of Ohio Peter Elliott in the Feb. 2 statement.

The Herald could not find any contact information for Lodge administrators on Tuesday afternoon.