Two men are facing charges of stabbing another man to death on Boston’s Methadone Mile in January.
Boston Police on Tuesday filed charges against Boston men David Robinson, 48, and Robert Jamison, 44, for the Jan. 4 killing.
They are accused of killing Richard Ghiozzi, 33, of Medford, police said.
The stabbing happened on the 100 block of Southhampton Street, in the heart of what’s known as the city’s Methadone Mile due to the concentration of drug clinics there. The area near the confluence of Melnea Cass Boulevard and Massachusetts Avenue — giving the area the name “Mass and Cass,” which is what city officials looking to be more positive call it — has become a haven for open drug dealing and use, homelessness and violence.
The conditions there have worsened considerably in recent years, and the city is searching for ways to ameliorate the conditions, including spreading out the concentrated clinics and shelters that lead to the congregating there.
The cops tracked down Robinson on Tuesday on a murder warrant on the same block where they say he played a role in Ghiozzi’s death three months earlier.
Police said Jamison was already in in jail when his murder warrant was issued.
The Boston Police Department continues to investigate the stabbing and is asking anyone with information to call the gumshoes at 617-343-4470.