Hospitalized man arrested in connection to fatal Mattapan shooting

BOSTON — A 37-year-old man has been arrested in connection to a triple shooting in Mattapan over the weekend.

According to Boston police, Anthony Davis has been charged with unlawful possession of a firearm as a fourth offense and armed career criminal in relation to the shooting death of Eleanor Maloney, 74.

Maloney was described as a bystander when she was shot and killed over the weekend in Mattapan.

The other two victims - both adult men - sustained non life-threatening injuries and were both transported to area hospitals. They are both expected to survive.

Davis is in a Boston hospital, according to police. He was arraigned on Monday afternoon in his hospital room at Brigham and Women's. He has not yet been charged with homicide or murder.

Dorchester Municipal Court Judge Thomas Kaplanes imposed $50,000 cash bail and ordered Davis to wear a GPS monitoring device if he does post bail. Davis will next appear in court on May 6 in Dorchester.

Davis has been previously convicted on gun charges in 2004, 2009 and 2013. He was found not guilty of a 2004 Dorchester murder, according to police.

The victim was a grandmother who was sitting on her porch to enjoy the weather when she was caught in the crossfire. Police say that Maloney was not the intended target in the shooting.

Her brother, Carson Leroy Maloney, told Boston 25 that Eleanor came to the United States from Barbados when she was a teenager and spent 44 years working at Boston Medical Center as an assistant in the operating room.

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"Eleanor had nothing to do with this, she is not that kind of person," said Carson Maloney. "She doesn't bother anyone."

At the Maloney home, relatives were at a loss for words.

"I only have two sisters left," Carson Maloney said. Eleanor, we grew up together. We were like twins and we spent so much time together as a family. We were so very close, very close-knit family."

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