Prosecutors in Massachusetts accused a 20-year-old man last week of killing his girlfriend with a sword and then curling up next to her body while police attempted for two hours to enter the house.
Nevaeh Goddard, 17, was allegedly killed in Stow on April 5 by Shane Curry, according to a news release from the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office. Curry’s mother went to the police station and asked that her son be checked on by cops. Stow police arrived at the Great Road residence around 4:30 p.m. and made an attempt to enter. However, Curry refused to let them in.
Curry rebuffed police attempts to enter the house for two hours, according to the prosecution.
Upon entering the house at last, they discovered Goddard, who shared the residence, had been fatally stabbed. Authorities observed him resting her body on a mattress in his bedroom. After a fight, Curry killed Goddard and confessed to stabbing her several times, according to the prosecution.
“The bruises aren’t working … hitting her, that’s not working, so OK, I have to knife her, so I do,” Curry told police, according to the criminal complaint.
According to People, the document claimed that he referred to her as his “twin flame.”
Before bringing the murder charge last week, Curry was first charged by prosecutors with assault and battery on a household or family member as well as assault and battery causing serious bodily injury.
According to reports, Curry has a history of mental illness.
GLAAD said that although prosecutors are referring to her as a girl, she identified as non-binary and went by the pronouns they/them, River.
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“We are absolutely heartbroken to hear of the death of another nonbinary teenager, River Nevaeh Goddard, who had been reported missing for years after reportedly surviving childhood abuse and time in foster care. Too often, young people, and LGBTQ youth in particular, are failed by the adults and systems entrusted to protect them, and do not feel they have anywhere to turn in times of crisis,” GLAAD President & CEO Sarah Kate Ellis stated.
Goddard’s grandfather told that Goddard was raised in the Providence, Rhode Island, area. He mentioned that she had a difficult background. She apparently spent time in the state’s foster care system and was born while her mother was incarcerated.
“There couldn’t have been a nicer, more soulful, and more spiritual person,” Simmons stated.
