Joseph Housley 2021 Trial Pending
On July 6 2021 at approximately 9:53PM gun shots rang out at at Greenbrier Village, located at 101 Forsyth Circle. Seekonk Police arrived and found Joseph Housley (66) shot to death in his apartment. Housley was shot three (3) times with a .44 caliber firearm.
Seekonk Police have described the murder as an "isolated" incident and there is no threat to the public.
Investigation Summary
According to prosecutors, Joseph "JD" Housley II (21) allegedly planned to kill his father and carried out the plot with a friend, Christopher Heron (21), because his father was allegedly abusive toward him and his mother, Erdina Housley. The murder was planned for July 4 2021, which was his mother's birthday, however the act was postponed until July 6, 2021. His parents had filed for divorce in 2020. .
The defendants made an effort to to hide their involvement in the homicide by covering the interior of a car with plastic and disposing of the clothes they wore to the crime scene. The men they also destroyed cellphones, and contacted cooperating witnesses, providing a script to tell investigators and even offered to pay for lawyers for his co-defendant.
A search warrant on Houlsey Jr.'s home at 12 Peckham Street in Rehoboth led to the discovery of .44-caliber ammunition and two additional firearms. Police seized over $436,000 in cash, crates of THC products and boxes of heat-sealed bags of suspected marijuana weighing over 50 pounds.
A search warrant on Heron's home at 101 Mason Street in Rehoboth home lead to the discovery of a .357-caliber semi-automatic pistol and a black mask. Also seized was a large capacity magazine for the weapon, about two pounds of marijuana and assorted THC products, psilocybin mushrooms, hash oil, over 1,000 Adderall pills and $19,700 in cash.
UPDATE : September 29, 2022
A Bristol County Grand Jury has indicted Joseph "JD" Housley II (21) and Christopher Heron (21) with murder and carrying an illegal firearm. Both Housley and Heron are being held as dangerous in relation to Bristol Superior Court cases from 2021. Both defendants have been in custody since fall of 2021 without bail.
Joseph Housley Jr. is charged with unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition, being a felon in possession of an illegal firearm, possession with intent to distribute a class C drug, trafficking more than 50 pounds of marijuana, and trafficking meth.
Christopher Heron is charged with unlawful possession of a high capacity firearm and ammunition, trafficking a class B drug, and two counts of possession with intent to distribute a class C drug.
On July 6 2021 at approximately 9:53PM gun shots rang out at at Greenbrier Village, located at 101 Forsyth Circle. Seekonk Police arrived and found Joseph Housley (66) shot to death in his apartment. Housley was shot three (3) times with a .44 caliber firearm.
Seekonk Police have described the murder as an "isolated" incident and there is no threat to the public.
Investigation Summary
According to prosecutors, Joseph "JD" Housley II (21) allegedly planned to kill his father and carried out the plot with a friend, Christopher Heron (21), because his father was allegedly abusive toward him and his mother, Erdina Housley. The murder was planned for July 4 2021, which was his mother's birthday, however the act was postponed until July 6, 2021. His parents had filed for divorce in 2020. .
The defendants made an effort to to hide their involvement in the homicide by covering the interior of a car with plastic and disposing of the clothes they wore to the crime scene. The men they also destroyed cellphones, and contacted cooperating witnesses, providing a script to tell investigators and even offered to pay for lawyers for his co-defendant.
A search warrant on Houlsey Jr.'s home at 12 Peckham Street in Rehoboth led to the discovery of .44-caliber ammunition and two additional firearms. Police seized over $436,000 in cash, crates of THC products and boxes of heat-sealed bags of suspected marijuana weighing over 50 pounds.
A search warrant on Heron's home at 101 Mason Street in Rehoboth home lead to the discovery of a .357-caliber semi-automatic pistol and a black mask. Also seized was a large capacity magazine for the weapon, about two pounds of marijuana and assorted THC products, psilocybin mushrooms, hash oil, over 1,000 Adderall pills and $19,700 in cash.
UPDATE : September 29, 2022
A Bristol County Grand Jury has indicted Joseph "JD" Housley II (21) and Christopher Heron (21) with murder and carrying an illegal firearm. Both Housley and Heron are being held as dangerous in relation to Bristol Superior Court cases from 2021. Both defendants have been in custody since fall of 2021 without bail.
Joseph Housley Jr. is charged with unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition, being a felon in possession of an illegal firearm, possession with intent to distribute a class C drug, trafficking more than 50 pounds of marijuana, and trafficking meth.
Christopher Heron is charged with unlawful possession of a high capacity firearm and ammunition, trafficking a class B drug, and two counts of possession with intent to distribute a class C drug.