Crime
A Malden man has been charged with first-degree murder for the death of a woman in Somerville from a 2009 cold case.
A Malden man has been indicted on murder charges for the death of a woman in a Somerville cold case from 2009, the Middlesex District Attorney said.
Heinsky Anacreon, 38, of Malden, is facing first-degree murder charges after Charline Rosemond was shot and killed more than 15 years ago, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan and Somerville Police Chief Shumeane Benford said in a press release.
Rosemond, 23, lived with her family in Everett and worked at a car dealership in Brighton. She was last seen alive April 7, 2009 and was found shot in her father’s car in a Union Square parking lot six days later, according to the DA’s office.
Days before her murder, Rosemond was planning to buy a used Lexus and withdrew $4,000 in cash from her bank to purchase it. Anacreon and his friend, Roberto Jeune, persuaded Rosemond to bring the cash to a remote parking lot, where she was shot and killed, the release said.
“Charline Rosemond was a promising and hard-working young woman with her whole life ahead of her,” Ryan said. “We allege today that she was taken advantage of and murdered by two men who were willing to take her life for $4,000. They killed her in cold blood. They celebrated the murder with a bottle of champagne, and they left her body in a parking lot for days, while her family frantically searched for her.”
Rosemond considered Jeune to be one of her closest friends, and he was able to lure her to the parking lot after he convinced her he had a contact who could get her the Lexus she wanted at a better price, prosecutors said. Anacreon, who played the part of the contact, had access to the exact model of Lexus through his workplace, according to the DA’s office.
After the murder, Anacreon admitted to a close confidant that he provided the .44 Magnum firearm that was used to kill Rosemond and got rid of the weapon by throwing it into a body of water, the DA’s office said. The murder weapon has never been recovered.
Jeune died of natural causes July 8, 2024 in Philadelphia, the release said.
Anacreon is also charged with attempting to willfully mislead a police officer and attempting to willfully mislead an attorney for obstructing justice during negotiations between the prosecution and defense, the release said.
During a formal interview session May 21, 2024, Anacreon falsely claimed that Jeune admitted to him that he committed the murder but that he had no knowledge of or involvement in Jeune’s plan, according to the DA’s office.
Further evidence revealed that Anacreon’s denials of participation were knowingly false, the release said.
Anacreon’s release has not yet been scheduled, according to the DA’s office.
“This indictment is the first step in holding Anacreon accountable for Charline Rosemond’s murder,” Ryan said. “It is another reminder of our commitment to neither forgetting nor giving up on uncharged cases. I want to thank our State Police homicide unit and the Somerville Police Department detectives who never gave up on this case.”
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