Man, 31, dies after assault with bat

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Man, 31, dies after assault with bat
Neighbor charged; cites confrontation

By Ralph Ranalli, Globe Staff | March 20, 2006

A Roxbury man who allegedly brandished a nail gun during a fight last week died yesterday of head injuries allegedly inflicted by a neighbor who wielded a baseball bat in the confrontation, police said.
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Frederick Montgomery, 31, died at Brigham and Women's Hospital of head trauma suffered when he was struck ''more than once" in the head with an aluminum baseball bat on March 12, said a spokesman for the Boston police, Officer Michael McCarthy, yesterday.

Police found Montgomery lying face down in the entryway of the Roxbury three-decker where he lived.

A resident of a different apartment in the Wigglesworth Street building, 39-year-old John Conley, told police he struck Montgomery with the bat during a fight, police said.

Conley told police that Montgomery came at him with a nail gun after an argument.

A nail gun was found on the floor at the scene, Suffolk County prosecutors said.

Conley was arraigned last week on a charge of assault with intent to murder, and was ordered held on $500,000 cash bail.

An autopsy was being conducted yesterday, and the results will help determine whether Montgomery's death will be ruled a homicide, McCarthy said.

If the death is ruled a homicide, it would be the city's ninth of 2006.

There were 12 homicides in Boston by this date last year, McCarthy said.

A former resident of the apartment building, who asked that his name not be used, said yesterday that Montgomery had lived in the first-floor apartment for about a year and that he had seemed to be personable.

''He was friendly. I would say hello to him every so often," the former neighbor said. ''It's just unbelievable that this happened and now he's dead."

The former neighbor, who moved out of the building in the fall, said that he did not know Conley.

Conley is scheduled to be back in court early next month, McCarthy said.
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