Most Wanted Suspect Arraigned in Connection with 2012 Billerica Homicide
WOBURN – Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan and Billerica Chief of Police Daniel Rosa have announced that Steven Touch, 28, of Lynn, was arraigned today in Middlesex Superior Court in connection with the 2012 Billerica homicide that resulted in the death of 22-year-old Quintin Koehler. Touch, an alleged leader of the Young Bloods gang, was apprehended in Lynn last night. Touch was charged with murder in the first degree, home invasion, attempt to commit armed robbery and two counts of conspiracy.
Clerk Magistrate Michael Sullivan ordered the defendant held without bail. The next scheduled hearing in this case is March 23.
At approximately 7:30 p.m. last night Touch was located at a residence on Empire Street in Lynn by the Massachusetts State Police Violent Fugitive Apprehension Section, the State Police Special Tactical Operations Team, the FBI North Shore Gang Task Force and the Lynn Police Department. He was allegedly found hiding inside a drawer built into a bed frame.
An arrest warrant was issued for Touch on January 10, 2017 by the Middlesex Superior Court after he failed to appear in court on the following charges: possession of a large capacity firearm, possession of firearm without a license, possession of a large capacity feeding device, carrying a loaded firearm and defacing a serial number on a firearm. Subsequently, on May 22, 2017, another arrest warrant was issued for him by the U.S. District Court in Boston for Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution.
Touch was indicted by a Middlesex Grand Jury in June of 2017, after new evidence was uncovered by investigators allegedly connecting him to the July 7, 2012 incident where four men forced entry into a home at 795 Boston Road in Billerica, smashing the door from its hinges and fatally shooting the resident of the home, Quintin Koehler.
Touch, who was believed to be moving from residence to residence in an effort to evade police was added to the Massachusetts State Police Violent Fugitive Apprehension Section’s list of Most Wanted fugitives in September of 2017.
Touch was apprehended as part of a joint operation conducted by Massachusetts State Police Violent Fugitive Apprehension Section, State Police K-9 Section, State Police Special Tactical Operations Team, Massachusetts State Police assigned to the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office, State Police Gang Unit, the Federal Bureau of Investigation North Shore Gang Task Force, Lynn Police, Billerica Police and Revere Police.
These charges are allegations and the defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty.
The prosecutors assigned to this case are Special Assistant District Attorney David Solet and Assistant District Attorney Jamie Charles. The Victim Witness Advocate is Meaghan McCarthy.