An Egg Harbor City man has been indicted for murder in the fatal shooting of a man on the Atlantic City Boardwalk last month.
He gave a recorded interview admitting that he killed Eric Wynn, Chief Assistant Prosecutor Seth Levy said at a detention hearing last month. Boston also admitted he had drugs with intent to distribute.
But the defendant now claims he did not kill Wynn, and that he did not make those admissions, his attorney said at the hearing.
"It seemed to me he was very likely he was under some kind of mental duress or possibly under the influence of substances" when he spoke to police, Lauren Musarra said of her client.
While Musarra said she has seen only a written synopsis of Boston's alleged statement to police, she called it "illogical and incoherent."
He was ordered held following that detention hearing.
A month earlier, he had a simple assault case out of Hammonton that appears to have stayed at the municipal level, court records show.
Boston had another simple assault and criminal mischief charge out of Hammonton in September, three months after he was put on probation.
That case was transferred to the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office a month later, according to the municipal court record.
"His probation was not violated for these pending charges, and I just wonder why it was not," Judge Patricia Wild said at Boston's detention hearing.
Now a grand jury has indicted him on charges including murder and possession of a weapon by a certain person not allowed to possess a firearm.
Boston remains in the Atlantic County Justice Facility.
