DA tells of argument before hotel stabbing: Cook arraigned in murder case
They had worked together for a half-dozen years in the posh hotel restaurant in the Back Bay. But after they argued last Friday afternoon, Ivan Lorenzo-Sosa , 37, assaulted his longtime co-worker, then fatally stabbed him, a prosecutor said yesterday.
Carlos E. Borrero Jr. , 30, the father of an 8-year-old boy, was stabbed in the chest, hand, thigh, and bicep, said Cory Flashner , a Suffolk assistant district attorney. The wound that killed him punctured his lung and heart, Flashner said yesterday in Boston Municipal Court, where Lorenzo-Sosa was arraigned on charges of murder.
Borrero was a bartender and Lorenzo-Sosa a cook at Turner Fisheries , the hotel restaurant. Prosecutors said the motive behind the stabbing and the nature of the argument remained under investigation.
Flashner said a video camera inside the Westin Copley Place , where the men were fighting about 4:30 p.m., caught part of the confrontation , though not the actual stabbing.
“The incident ended when co-workers restrained” Lorenzo-Sosa, he said.
During the arraignment, some among the dozens of Borrero’s relatives and friends stared at Lorenzo-Sosa, who wore a white jumpsuit and kept his head lowered. As his mother and sister sat expressionless behind him, Lorenzo-Sosa was ordered held without bail. A not guilty plea was entered on his behalf. more…
